oouuucccchhh whats happening in japan ??

blinko

oouuucccchhh whats happening in japan ?? wow whats happend there my fund has dived within the last week !!

al_yrpal

Livedoor unsettled the market - they are selling (at the moment).

cheerfulcat

hi, blinko,

Take your pick -

http://news.google.co.uk/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=stocks%20japan

The main thing is not to worry too much about day to day fluctuations in value.

exil

For a long time now, the Japanese economy has been stagnating, mainly due to the Japanese saving money rather than spending it (we worry about people spending more than they earn!). Companies that relied on a captive home market are feeling the strain.

ReportInvestor

A better star to the day for blinko .

FT - Foreign investors return to Japan causing a 3% rise in Nikkei closed to 15,894.94

Mr_Mumble

exil, you're slightly behind the times, Japan is booming again, from the FT:

The world's second biggest economy grew 1.4 per cent in the fourth quarter - far in excess of the 0.3 per cent growth recorded in the US and growth of 0.4 per cent in the European Union.

These fluctuations are to be expected since the Nikkei is up nearly 50% from its 52 week lows of last May.

Ted_Bloke

Having been heavily invested there, experience has made me wonder whether we Westerners do not have the right Categories to understand investment in Japan.
We are too attached to material things, to fixity, permanence and possession.
We think a rock is a rock and a mountain is a mountain.
Although even we crass westerners are capable of knowing very well that a share price is not a share price (and a guarantee is no guarantee, advice does not constitute Advice, that gold deep in the ground may levitate high into the sky and return and be despised, that Unit prices can fall as well as rise, that houses are not as safe as houses, to say nothing of the Bank of England.) If we understand these things are part of the floating world of illusion, we are on a path towards Enlightenment.
Think of Zen.
Or better, try to not-think of Zen or anything else.
Contemplate a garden if you must, better an ikebana, better still and less distracting, a blank white wall.

A few years ago I had occasion to thumb through one of those thick volumes of hundreds of pages of big conference proceedings on finance.
I saw in the index a couple of pages on "Reasons for the Japanese Financial Collapse".
Eagerly I turned to the pages.
They were blank. Nothing was there.
kdang!
In an instant I was Enlightened!

EdInvestor

I saw in the index a couple of pages on "Reasons for the Japanese Financial Collapse".
Eagerly I turned to the pages.
They were blank. Nothing was there.
kdang!
In an instant I was Enlightened!

LOL Ted

I wonder if I could interest you in some very attractive tulip bulbs.:cool:

They have just the right Zen-like element to them for you, I'm sure you will just love them.......;)

Ted_Bloke

Haii! HAU YOU KNOW?

I have some black ones. Only to a discerning gentleman such as yourself, only with maximum discretion, and only because I am momentarily a shade over-extended in Panama might I be persuaded to part with these bulbs that I acquired from a very nice man at a fair not a million miles from Oud Amsterdam. Be advised that time is of the essence because of the great interest that rumour of my difficulties has aroused among my other contacts. The prettily named Nippon Warrant flowers only at midnight on cherry-blossom viewing day in the Year of the Mole when they are visible by the light of a firefly lantern.

EdInvestor

I feel sure this thread is going to be blessed with a haiku any minute now

Probably from deemy.

free4440273

the so-called yen 'carry trade' is a real worry. when traders close out their positions, they will probably do so en masse - which means trouble ahead...