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Last week we saw the USD gap down to 84.82 versus the Yen until fear of intervention below 85 pulled the currency back up to close the week at 86.55. As concerns over cases like Dubai World, troubled leveraged deals and banks in general will certainly...
I found some interesting articles in this week’s issue of The Economist magazine discussing key issues for these challenging times. In “A developing bull market,” the author points to the potential for a bubble to be created in emerging market debt. ...
You will probably notice the layout change for the Asia Risk Return Blog as the photo of the Mt. Fuji sunset, a picture we took some time ago, went from taking up the full width of the blog page to a banner next to the blog name. I decided on the...
After reading the article Is the Fed Creating New Bubbles?, I was curious on whether I could dig up any evidence to support the dollar carry trade argument. Download upon download of data from Federal reserve databases and I still came up empty-handed....
From the US to Brazil, there is growing pressure for China to revalue the Renminbi given it’s new position in the global economy. China, meanwhile, is pointing the finger at the US Fed for causing a relentlessly weak US dollar. The US claims it’s not...
