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...Hou Yu-ih, running for the opposition Kuomintang, has implied that a victory by Lai, the frontrunner, would drag Taiwan into a war with China....
...Yu expects yen strength to continue, with the Bank of Japan widely expected to drop its negative interest rate policy in the coming months....
...When one official asked Chinese bankers if they could diversify into more yen or euro-backed assets, they replied that the idea was not practical....
...With over a trillion yen ($7.6bn) in sales to China last year, Japan’s chip tool makers will undoubtedly be hoping the government’s prediction turns out to be right....
...“At that time, predicted that the reopening would happen in the first half of 2023, but I didn’t expect it to be so soon,” Yu said....
...After paying ¥500 (about £3) at the front desk — a flat fee for all bathhouses in the capital — and a few hundred yen extra for a sauna, men and women file through a noren curtain into their respective changing...
...“A lot of these contracts were done five years ago . . . and they are getting escalated,” said Yu, of New York University Shanghai....
...Tang Yu-chun, 72, is another “cardboard granny” who collects cardboard almost every day, starting at the break of dawn and often working until early evening....
...Her latest acquisition is a 2020 installation by the American artist Sarah Sze, “Plein Air (Times Zero)”....
...It implies that they really see end demand weakening and the whole economy not recovering soon,” Joey Yen, an analyst with research company IDC, told Nikkei....
...Additional reporting by Sun Yu, Sherry Fei Ju and Jamil Anderlini...
...Elsewhere they have collaborated with performance artists and musicians, as well as choreographer Chou Shu-yi and dancers Tien Hsiao-tzu and Lin Yu-ju....
...Xiangrong Yu, senior China economist at Citi, said the designation was “largely toothless”, but that “the risk of full-scale trade war is on the rise.”...
...Young painters like Chen Yun, Lai Wei-Yu, Shih Yung-Chun, Sun Pei-Mao and Wang Guan-Jhen appreciate the symbiotic relationship between young artists and young collectors....
...The yen was 0.1 per cent stronger at ¥109.25 and the euro was up 0.1 per cent at $1.1438....
...Sony also lowered its revenue forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2019 to ¥8.5tn ($77.6bn) from ¥8.7tn yen it forecast in October on lower sales expectations for image sensors and smartphones....
...”, says Geoffrey Yu at UBS....
...Japan’s yen is 0.1 per cent weaker at ¥109.53 per dollar. Tokyo’s Topix is up 0.9 per cent while Seoul’s Kospi is 0.3 per cent stronger....
...The yen is holding ¥110 to the dollar, flat at ¥110.21. It last held that level in mid-June....
...The yen is above the ¥114-mark, hovering just above ¥114.2 on Monday, its weakest against the dollar in nearly two months. Oil prices were on the rise after finishing last week on a lacklustre note....
...The Japanese yen was among the main beneficiaries of the dollar’s woes, strengthening 1.9 per cent to ¥111.02 per dollar....
...You can’t say that because February data looks good, it’s going to stay good,” said Zhang Yu, head of international research at Minsheng Securities in Beijing....
...Deutsche Securities analyst Yu Yoshida said the working capital shortfalls may be more serious than cost inflation, but he expects Toshiba to avoid insolvency because the weakness of the yen has delivered...
...A better case for intervention can be made if there was co-ordination to support it, says Mr Yu....
...The assumption was a more aggressive BoJ would result in yen weakness, “but it hasn’t played out in the way the BoJ and the market expected”, says Geoff Yu, investment strategist at UBS Wealth Management...
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