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Axel van Trotsenburg, vice president for East Asia and the Pacific region at the World Bank, talks about the relationship between China and Japan, and how a better-than-expected pick-up in Japan would affect the region.
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*Gov't bonds in Europe gain on talk of Japanese buyers. LONDON, April 5- European shares hit a one-month low on Friday as investors braced for potentially weaker-than-forecast U.S. payrolls data due later, while many of Europe's sovereign bonds jumped on talk of Japanese demand.
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SEOUL/ NEW DELHI, April 5- Asian policymakers braced for a flood of capital unleashed by the Bank of Japan's huge monetary stimulus, but some conceded on Friday the impact on global money flows and currencies might prove to be a necessary side-effect to get the region's No.2 economy growing.
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*BOJ pledges to pump $1.4 trillion into economy. LONDON, April 5- The yen recovered against the dollar on Friday as investors and speculators took profit on its slide to a 3-1/ 2 year low on the Bank of Japan's surprisingly radical monetary expansion drive.
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*Reports say missiles hidden on North Korea's east coast. SEOUL, April 5- North Korea has placed two of its intermediate range missiles on mobile launchers and hidden them on the east coast of the country in a move that could threaten Japan or U.S.
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Axel van Trotsenburg, vice president for East Asia and the Pacific region at the World Bank, talks about the relationship between China and Japan, and how a better-than-expected pick-up in Japan would affect the region.
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Davide Serra, founder and CEO of Algebris Investments, tells CNBC why he doesn't expect Europe to become like Japan, suggesting that the ECB's help is much more conditional than its BoJ counterpart.
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TOKYO, April 5- The Bank of Japan's decision to fire one big shot in its fight to end deflation is a clear signal new Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is not one for constant tinkering with settings, and it will take something big for him to load up his policy cannon again.
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LONDON, April 5- The yen hit a 3-1/ 2 year low against the dollar on Friday, a day after the Bank of Japan's aggressive policy easing, while European shares fell ahead of pivotal U.S. payrolls data due later in the day.
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TOKYO, April 5- Japanese shares jumped to near five-year highs and government bond prices rose sharply on Friday, with the long-end of the yield curve inverting, a day after the Bank of Japan announced extraordinary stimulus steps to revive the world's third-largest economy.
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Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda played down concerns his burst of monetary stimulus would create asset-price bubbles even as it delivered an immediate pay-off in global markets, with government bond yields at a record low, the yen hitting a 3-1/2 year trough and stocks surging to multi-year highs.
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*Plunge in Korea, China pulls MSCI Asia ex- Japan down 1.1 pct. TOKYO, April 5- Asian shares hit a three-month low on Friday as concerns over bird flu in China and escalating tensions in the Korean peninsula unsettled investors as they counted down to potentially pivotal U.S. payrolls data out later in the session.
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*BOJ pledges to pump $1.4 trillion into economy. TOKYO, April 5- The yen touched a 3-1/ 2- year low on Friday after suffering its biggest one-day tumble since late 2008 in the previous session, when the Bank of Japan surprised markets with a radical campaign of monetary expansion to attack deflation.
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Dennis Gartman, founder and editor of The Gartman Letter told CNBC that the Bank of Japan is unlikely to reach its targets but that its monetary policy will weaken the currency and strengthen the stock market.
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Jane Foley, senior currency strategist at Rabobank, says the Bank of Japan's monetary policy could work as it set its target with deflation and not inflation as previously tried in the U.K.
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*Dollar on track to rise toward 100- yen mark. NEW YORK, April 5- The U.S. dollar weakened against most major currencies on Friday, hitting nearly two-week lows against the euro, as weaker-than-expected jobs data raised concerns that the pace of recovery in the American labor market has slowed.
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TOKYO, April 5- Yields on benchmark 10- year Japanese government bonds rebounded sharply from record lows on Friday as investors locked in gains a day after the Bank of Japan unveiled sweeping monetary stimulus to revive the economy.
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TOKYO, April 5- The Tokyo Stock Exchange halted trade in Japanese government bond futures twice on Friday after a sharp plunge in the wake of the Bank of Japan's massive policy overhaul in the previous session. The first trading halt came after 10- year JGB futures shed one point.
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NEW YORK, April 5- Major stock markets tumbled, the dollar fell and U.S. U.S. employers hired at the slowest pace in nine months in March, adding just 88,000 nonfarm jobs, the Labor Department said, below an expected 200,000. The jobless rate ticked a tenth of a point lower to 7.6 percent, but largely due to people dropping out of the work force.
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TOKYO, April 5- Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda played down concerns his unprecedented burst of monetary stimulus would create asset-price bubbles even as it delivered an immediate pay-off in global markets, with government bond yields at a record low, the yen hitting a 3-1/ 2 year trough and stocks surging to multi-year highs.
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Matt Sherwood, Head of Investment Market Research at Perpetual says Japan's market rally could fade if the government does not implement economic reforms.