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— Japan reported its first annual trade deficit since 1980 as it imported expensive energy to offset the impact of its devastating tsunami and exporters grappled with the rising value of the yen.
The 2.49 trillion yen ($32 billion) shortfall for 2011 reflects a 2.7 percent decline in the value of Japan’s exports to 65.55 trillion yen ($843 billion). In December, the trade balance was a deficit of 205.1 billion yen, according to the Finance Ministry figures released Wednesday.
A major factor behind the figures was the impact of the expensive energy imports Japan turned to after the March disaster touched off a nuclear crisis and led the country to shut down, or not restart, a large portion of its reactors, said Martin Schulz, senior economist with the Fujitsu Research Institute.
He said pressure to import energy will continue to weigh heavily on Japan for the next year, but will subside as the country pursues greater efficiency measures.
He also said the drop in the value of exports also reflects that Japan is shifting toward overseas production.
“Japan’s exports are really focused on high value exports and this market is fairly strong,” he said. “
A new graph is making its way around the Internet that charts the amount of laughter recorded by Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) stenographers during meetings between 2001 and 2006 during the ramp-up to the recession. The graph shows that committee members had increasingly more fun as the years passed, and suggests they could have been doing more to keep an eye on the growing housing bubble that would soon burst. The FOMC is expected to announce a new initiative regarding interest-rate projections and future impact, and many are wondering how many will be laughing. For more on this continue reading the following article from Tim Iacono.
The Federal Reserve transcripts from 2006 released ten days ago continue to reverberate around the internet as the central bank has become a laughing stock for being so unaware of the U.S.
Club Med, renowned the world over for providing all-inclusive vacation packages, is now wading into the luxury property market. Its first offering is a chalet development in the ski region of Valmorel, France that epitomizes the company’s philosophy of luxurious living. Apartment buyers will be able to take advantage of all included amenities like restaurants, bars and ski passes as well as have the freedom to exchange spaced for vacations with other owners in the growing Club Med network. Club Med execs say the added perks amount to a value of €50,000 for a family of four. For more on this continue reading the following article from Property Wire. Club Med has launched its first ever luxury chalet and apartment development in the ski-ing resort of Valmorel, France. The company, which was founded with the aim of offering all inclusive holiday packages based on the values of friendliness, happiness and nature, has decided to build luxury villas and apartments and sell them to property investors who could enjoy the same kind of values that holiday makers had enjoyed for half a century. Clu Read more…