It seems the U.S. market won't be affected too much by election results, and that's quite reassuring, ... Investors are slowly regaining their confidence, and the Nikkei should start to establish support around 15,000. |
It seems the U.S. market won't be affected too much by election results, and that's quite reassuring. Investors are slowly regaining their confidence, and the Nikkei should start to establish support around 15,000. |
New York shares were higher, but we've also got this fear of retaliatory terror attacks. Besides, I haven't seen much improvement when it comes to economic fundamentals in Japan. |
Of course the market is still very focused on high-techs and information technology-related issues, but today we saw a bit of buying in other sectors. |
Right now there are few market participants.... Investors don't know what may happen with the currency during the holidays. |
Shares in firms that have raised their dividend forecasts continue to be in focus for investors. |
Softbank's poor performance is especially weighing on sentiment. |
That would be happening here as high-techs and banks were sold heavily in the past few days. |
The currency movement can't really be helped, considering the comments (by Fukui). This is something we'll want to pay attention to. |
The market focused on only the good things in the survey. That suggests how far and fast the market sentiment has improved. |
The market lacks the kind of trade volume needed to push it higher. |
The Nasdaq will probably rebound tonight because of Yahoo and investors started factoring that in at the start, but there wasn't enough follow-through buying in high-tech and Internet shares, |
The news about Softbank is certainly a plus for the stock. The question now is whether or not it can help push the overall index much higher. |
The weakness in the dollar, and the corresponding strength in the yen, is making it tough for investors to pick up high techs. |
There are a lot of hopes with the start of the new year. |