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...“Trump’s go-it-alone approach has left Japan more insecure,” hence Mr Abe’s pledge to increase co-operation with China, he said....
...Merkel moment German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with US president Donald Trump in the presence of French president Emmanuel Macron, Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and US national security Adviser...
...Since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in 2012, his policies of low interest rates and devaluation of the yen through quantitative easing have fuelled sales in Japan....
...The single biggest issue will be the world economy, with Mr Abe’s push for more fiscal stimulus set to meet resistance from Germany’s Angela Merkel and the UK’s David Cameron....
...In Northern Ireland at the last election, the Democratic Unionist party of first minister Peter Robinson topped the poll with 38 seats....
...But for the most part, Chinese and Japanese officials have been left scrambling to figure out who is in charge of the president-elect’s Asia policies, even as Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sought an...
...As Hugh Sloane of hedge fund Sloane Robinson says: “It’s so depressing. Nothing offsets the cycle.”...
...It was a heroic lawyer, “Honest Abe”, who can take credit for abolishing slavery. A Jeffersonian Democrat lawyer occupies the White House today....
...And after winning two election victories since late 2012, Mr Abe is strong enough to keep a lid on intraparty grumbling....
...Karina Robinson, chief executive at board search firm Robinson Hambro, says: “My 20-year-old self abhorred the very idea. My 30-year-old self didn’t believe in them....
...Growing numbers of managers are looking to Japan in the wake of Abenomics – the expansionary monetary policy championed by prime minister Shinzo Abe – for opportunities....
...Even Mr Abe admitted last month that he did not have the numbers....
...London-based Sloane Robinson has seen its Japan fund rise 44.6 per cent so far this year....
...Other Japanese companies have also increased bonuses or wages in response to calls from the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, that companies push up wages alongside government measures aimed at banishing deflation...
...Kenji Abe, Citi Japan Strategist, suggests the BOJ made $370mn of ETF purchases over the week....
...Here is Sasaki’s supporting evidence (chart courtesy of JPMorgan Japan): As Sasaki notes (our emphasis): Shinzo Abe announced his intention to resign on Sept 12 2007 (his official resignation date was...
...Under the leadership of John Lindsay and Abe Beame, the city’s government had come near default despite having some of the highest taxes in the nation....
...Bloomberg reports that Mr Abe 52, will hold a press conference in Tokyo at 2pm (6am BST)....
...Yasuo Fukuda will succeed Shinzo Abe as Japan’s prime minister following his election Sunday as president of the ruling LDP....
...At least some Japan-focused hedge funds might see some respite from a perceived regulatory crackdown by Tokyo following Wednesday’s resignation of Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe and the impending reshuffle...
...At least, notes Wood, the humiliation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling LDP in the recent election for the Upper House of Japan’s parliament “has had the positive effect of making Japanese politics...
...For all Mr Abe’s faults, he at least shares [his predecessor] Mr Koizumi’s belief that a net public sector debt of 98 per cent of GDP and rising needs to be tackled.”...
...Much will depend on the mandate that the administration of PM Shintaro Abe receives in the forthcoming July election for the upper house of the Diet, or parliament”, he notes....
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