weekly japanese market summary

Finally we get a nice rally in stock markets worldwide . Actually it is still hard to believe what happened. Everybody was caught wrong footed last week. The week was not expected to deliver anything interesting and most investors were already looking...

Last week the market continued its free fall dropping more than 5% in Japan, 6% in the US and 8% in Europe. The continuing struggle of the world economy is harassing world investors that are finding refuge in corporate bonds where high risk premium exist...

It was an interesting week in Japan with the Nikkei225 up just over 2% despite a storm of terrible macro economic data. It started with the fastest monthly decline of exports revenue (-45% yoy) since the Japanese government has started reporting exports...

What a disappointing week once again. World markets fell in the red last week erasing gains from the previous two weeks. The Dow Jones had its lowest weekly close since 2003. On the week the Dow Jones fell almost 5% while the Nikkei225 only lost 3,7%....

Last week the rebound continued on most world financial markets. The Nikkei had his share of the pie with a bounce of 1%. Buyers were more aggressive all week long after a positive surprise on the ISM in the US as well as good economic data coming China...

Last week we observed that financial stock leaded a technical rebound on the Nikkei225 as the Japan’s most observed index gained 3,1%. The market rebounded as buyers are trying to defend the support level at 7700. There are still no sign of a strong rebound...

We are back in the danger zone with the Nikkei down another 5,9% on the week at 7745, largely below the 8000 level many chartists believed to be a strong support zone. Uncertainty about the near future and lack of transparency from financial institutions...

What a difference a week makes. Last week, I welcomed the sector rotation and what seemed to be a will by investors to invest in more cyclical and risky stocks but now a question remains: Is the market ready for another horrible year or is this just a...

Good morning, So here I am, writing my first weekly market report of 2009. From now on, every Monday I will have a post on the Nikkei225 performance the previous week as well as a short review of the most important financial news that affected the Japanese...