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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Money Morning Staff: Right now, the money in your wallet is losing its value. And worse, there’s nothing you can do to stop the U.S. dollar from utter freefall because… Read more…

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