Posts Tagged ‘Economics’

FYI : The Carry Trade Unwinding

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

1000 Yen with Natsume Soseki pictureIt’s not usual for me to read the article in the mailing list, because I’m too busy to play in other sites and I don’t understand much about the topic discussed in the articles but there’s an email questioning something that tickle me out :

Why the Yen doesn’t behave like any others currency, when others were depreciating, the Yen was appreciating?

The moderator replied :

It’s a Carry Trade Unwinding phenomenon, I have wrote the article at www.investorindonesia.com just visit the site.

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The Lebaran Effects?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Ketupat, The Symbol of LebaranAt the half of the month (September), my friend, Fajar told me that Dow Jones and Han Seng Index are fall by more than 10%, and I asked him, “how about Indonesia?”. He answered “We can still relax at this time, it’s still stable”.

I asked him back “Why?”, “I have no idea”, He replied. I answered my own question (with joking) “Maybe there’s a Lebaran effect, so demands are increasing and hold the economics from falling down”.  “Just maybe”, Fajar replied.

I look at the newspaper and everybody said “The Black Monday“, because Lehman Brothers was filed for bankruptcy.

I would have a review about the Index movement at this month, unfortunately I couldn’t get the closing price data until the end of the month (my data end at 19th of September), but I hope it’s enough to give a brief picture about the market at three countries (United States, Hong Kong and Indonesia)
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