Eric Burroughs

Position: Asia Financial Markets Editor
Eric Burroughs is Asia Financial Markets Editor for Reuters News based in Hong Kong, coordinating a team of reporters stretching from Wellington to Mumbai covering stocks, bonds and currencies. He previously served as chief correspondent in Tokyo leading market coverage during the Japan’s emergence from deflation, the revival of the yen carry trade and the 2007-2008 credit crisis. He came to Tokyo in November 2004 after having worked for nearly five years with Reuters in New York, writing on derivatives, bond markets, economics and the Federal Reserve. In 2003, he launched Reuters’ U.S. coverage of credit derivatives. Burroughs joined Reuters ...

Articles

CORRECTED-Investors pile up bets that Japan fiscal woes to worse November 13, 09:32am EST 

(In Nov. 10 story, corrects paragraph 1 to say ... risen sharply in the past three weeks ... instead of ... nearly doubled in the past week..) (For global stories on soaring government debt click [ID:nDEBT]) * Japan sovereign ...  Full Article 

Blog Posts

Learning to love Mongolia

Mongolia may seem like an extremely exotic investment destination in a world where money is heading for safety and avoiding risk, especially when violent riots are seizing the capital, Ulan Bator. But ...  Full Article 

Audio: Japan M&A nothing like the 80s

Japanese companies are on the prowl for foreign assets, and this time it has nothing to do with Rockefeller Center and world-famous golf courses as Japan was famed for snapping up in the late 1980s at ...  Full Article 

Losing faith in the dollar

No country has been a bigger fan of the dollar over the years as Japan. You can see it in the country's $1 trillion of foreign exchange reserves almost entirely concentrated in U.S. bonds or the sheer ...  Full Article | Comments [1]