Posts Tagged as ‘sub-prime’

March 24, 2008

Chinese and Japanese Finance Ministers Meet

On 23rd March, Japanese Finance Minister Nukaga exchanged opinions with his Chinese counterpart Hsiei at a meeting in Tokyo organized by the Sino-Japanese Finance Authority’s Executive board.

February 27, 2008

Why is the Yen weak?

Hideo Tamura, Special Economic Affairs journalist with Sankei Newspapers, writes (Sekai, March edition) about the state of the yen.

February 26, 2008

Japan & Middle East Sovereign Wealth Funds

Yoshiki Hatanaka, a senior consultant with Japan’s International Development Centre specializing in Middle Eastern economics, international oil, etc., writes in Sekai about Sovereign Wealth Funds. After providing an explanation of what SWFs are, an overview of the effect of the sub-prime crisis on them, and a brief analysis of Russian and Chinese SWFs, the [...]