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J.R. Crooks: Remember the Japanese yen carry trade? That was when investors would borrow yen to fund investments in higher-yielding risk assets. It served to suppress the value of the yen for a long time until the trade unwound. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: Like it has been for other Japanese families, this past year has been a tough one in my household, too. Perhaps not surprisingly, Sunday’s one-year anniversary brought long-buried emotions to the surface 12 months to the day after the horrific earthquake and the tsunami it spawned Read more…
Tom Essaye: This week marks the one-year anniversary of the tsunami hitting Japan (NYSEArca:EWJ) and the Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Undoubtedly the country is still healing from the effects of those disasters. But recent data has shown a recovery might be underway that could provide Read more…
Jack Crooks: The problems facing Japan (NYSEArca:EWJ) have been building up for some time. And I don’t believe the coming negative impact on its currency can be delayed much longer. Read more…
Stocks closed mixed on Wednesday on modestly higher volume. Large cap tech stocks weighed down the market for most of the day. After being ravaged by almost 2.5%, the Nasdaq (NASDAQ:QQQ) surged higher late in the session to close down only 1.0% on the day. All the other major indices posted Read more…
Stocks gapped up sharply on Tuesday and steadily rallied the entire day, to close at session highs. All five major indices ended the session up more that 2.75%. The small-cap Russell 2000 Read more…
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