Vikas Pershad of M&G Investments discusses the central bank’s yield curve control policy tweak and says “what we have gotten this week is a tacit acknowledgement from the BoJ that Japan’s dalliance with deflation is done.”
In CNBC’s Stock World Cup challenge, Margaret Patel of Allspring Global Investments gives her take on whether TSMC or Berkshire Hathaway is a better bet in giving investors a greater total return in the next year.
Michael Tran of RBC Capital Markets says that supply is going to be “really tight” in the energy markets due to years of underinvestment. As a result, demand doesn’t have to be exceptionally strong in the next cycle — “it just can’t be weak,” he added.
Amir Anvarzadeh of Asymmetric Advisors says the Bank of Japan’s decision to keep interest rates low is a “major policy error” which could be corrected as soon as Governor Haruhiko Kuroda leaves his post in April.
Tuvia Gering of the Institute for National Security Studies says China has “become involved, across the board, in a large swath of very strategic areas, not just energy security.”