Debates are raging over whether Japan needs charitable financial help to recover, but one way money has been flowing into the country is in the form of foreign purchases of Japanese stocks as investors snap up hammered shares.
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China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported that the country’s consumer price index rose 4.9% in January. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index fell 1% and in China the Shanghai Composite Index remained virtually unchanged. Japan’s Ni…
Continuing unrest in Egypt sent shock waves through stock markets as far away as Japan, where the Nikkei 225 Index fell 1.2%. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng Index also dropped 0.7%. In China the Shanghai Composite Index climbed 1.4%.
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Shares in Asia slid lower Friday as investors reacted to Chinese government moves to tighten credit and clamp down on inflation. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng Index fell 0.8% to 22,877, and in China, the Shanghai Composite sank 0…
Although Japan’s stock market has been weak for the last 20 years, there are signs that a shift may be under way that could transform that nation into the gateway to Asia’s emerging-market consumers. For patient investors looki…