Richard Jerram
Richard Jerram
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As the capital position of banks improves, so does their ability to take balance sheet risk, which should improve credit provision. The growth rate is slow, but is accelerating and should play a more constructive role in the economy.
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We think the U.S. could expand by around 3% while Japan's economy could grow somewhere between 3.5% and 4%.
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I think the real question is whether growth in 2001 is positive or negative. And the way things are going, it's looking increasingly likely there's going to be a negative number.
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Japan is forecast to be the fastest-growing G7 economy over the next two years. The biggest contribution to growth is coming from private sector demand.
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The ministry of finance is clearly prepared to sacrifice one year's growth in order to be able to begin to reconstruct the budget -- and cut the budget deficit..
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I'm looking for faster growth on the basis that the improvement in employment and wages is going to continue, ... It looks as if just about everything that could go right is going right with the economic outlook.
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We woke up and America was down pretty hard. Then we had a fairly big construction company go bust.
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It would be very, very negative for the market if Koizumi gives Kamei a serious post, because Kamei has been almost the antithesis of Koizumi,
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The stage is set for things to at least not get worse from the middle of 2002,
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The signs of an improvement in employment are very encouraging because that naturally feeds through to stronger incomes and consumer spending.
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It is difficult to find any part of the economic puzzle that would lead you to be less confident about the full-year 2006 outlook than you were six months ago.
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Three months ago, the debate was whether the economy was still declining or going sideways. Now the debate is whether the economy is going sideways or whether it is improving.
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There is also the issue of debt forgiveness for some construction companies by banks,
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The government still is claiming that the economy is okay. And if the economy's okay, then there's no reason to change it's fiscal stance. The mere fact that the market has gone down 10 percent doesn't really matter in economic terms.