Tag: japanese markets
Is the United States On Japan’s Path of Stagnation?
We recently wrote Japan’s Lost Decades to appreciate better why Japan’s GDP is smaller than it was in 1995 and why it took 35 years for...
Japans Lost Decades: Is U.S. On The Same Path?
Back in 1989, Japan was taking over the world. The country’s economy had grown 6.7% in 1988. Sony had just bought Columbia Pictures, one...
Japan Markets: The Great Keynesian Fail Of 2016?
Today, we look at the Japanese markets and their big monetary policy gamble that has yet to pay off.
Interest rates went to zero, then...
Japan’s Economy Doesn’t Need Helicopter Money: It Needs Less Debt
Pondering the state of the global economy can elicit manic-depressive-obsessive-compulsive emotions. The volatility of global markets – equities, bonds, commodities, currencies, etc. – are...
Is The iShares Japan ETF (EWJ) Putting In A Double Top?
While the U.S. markets continue to figure out its own identify, whether it’s meant to spend the next few months as a bear or...
Nikkei 225: Is The Hottest Equity Market About To Cool Off?
The past 2 years have been red-hot for Japanese equities. The best gauge of the Japanese stock market is the Nikkei 225 Index. And...
3 ETFs For Trading Japanese Equities Amid Yen Weakness
There have been a couple of developments in the Japanese markets that traders are (or should be) monitoring. In the equity markets, there is a bullish consolidation...
Are Japanese Markets Signaling Risk Off?
If there's any developed market evocative of the shift in tone between 2013 and 2014, it's Japanese Equities. After a blistering 57% rise (it's...
The Japanese Yen: Making History
What if I told you the Japanese Yen is the most heavily long-term oversold it has been in a generation?
In the post-WWII era, the...
Japanese Yen: In Extremis or About to Bottom?
If there's any trade that has been more persuasive and irrepressible in 2013 than Developed Market equities, it's the short Japanese Yen (JPY) trade. ...
