David Cohen
David Cohen
Former writer for The Simpsons who helped develop the hit animated series Futurama.
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth13 July 1966
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Chile is one of the wealthier economies in Latin America and they would represent a market for the products coming out of Asia. This region is increasingly the manufacturing center of the world and certainly that would be part of any agreement.
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As long as the outlook appears bright for continued world growth and investment spending generally, that should be supportive for Japanese machinery makers.
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It will be a solid performance, given the strong year-end export numbers and the general strength already seen in the regional economies.
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It's still a fluid situation. It's still going to be a while yet before the free trade area is actually implemented. By the time it's relevant I would think some of these other countries would want to participate and the bargaining will continue.
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The U.S. and China continue as the primary engines of export growth for the region, and we are seeing improvements in Europe and Japan as well. Export strength is helping support investment and consumer demand.
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They have one of the largest foreign reserves holdings in the world and rather than put it in (US) treasury bills, one way to diversify it is through their portfolio managers.
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Consumer spending, together with domestic investment spending, are leaving the Japanese economy a little less dependent on exports. Over the past decade, Japan has been notoriously unable to develop a self-sustaining recovery. We're gradually getting out of that rut.
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Consumer spending should be able to continue to contribute as it has in the past couple of quarters. The labor market is in better condition than it has been in a few years and that should be supportive of consumer spending.
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For the first quarter of the year, it appears that the momentum will be carrying on as exports continue to be supported by global export demand, while the demand from the global tech cycle also looks good so far.
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The economy is finishing the year on a strong note. Exports have gotten back on track quite nicely, including electronics, which had a bit of difficulty at the start of the year. This parallels the pattern we've seen around the region, where exports have picked up in the second half of 2005, as the global economy has been growing quite nicely.