Investors Focus This Week Asia focused on Japan Trade Data

Focus on Asian investors this week will be focused on Japan's trade data which will be a test of the new Japanese government policy, other than that attention will be focused on earnings reports China's energy giant, CNOOC and Sinopec.

Japan's trade data will provide additional evidence whether Japanese exporters benefit from PM Shinzo Abe added that maintaining the weakening Japanese yen. In addition, the investors will also see Japan's trade report as a measure of global demand.

Japanese Parliament finally approved the new management at the Bank of Japan and the government took measures to support monetary policy in an effort to push back the third largest economy in the world.

The upper house gave the green light to Haruhiko Kuroda as the Governor of the Bank of Japan, a former head of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to undertake aggressive measures of monetary easing after its predecessor failed to change the fate of the Japanese economy.

The Star Online Friday (03/15/2013) that includes news, Japanese House of Representatives also approved Kikuo Iwata and Hiroshi Nakaso as deputy governor accompanied Kuroda, unanimously came despite warnings from the opposition who oppose Iwata.

After receiving approval from the parliament, the new management team of Bank of Japan will take their position next week to discuss the focus of their first policy next month.