What could get japanese stocks moving again?

It has been a week of highs and lows for Japanese prime minister Shigeru Ishiba. On Wednesday he secured a coveted US trade deal. US president Donald Trump had threatened Japan with tariffs as high as

Investors may reappraise the TINA trade

The US-centric nature of the world of equity investment often masks important trends or milestones elsewhere. Few noticed this week, for instance, that the Topix, Japan’s broad stockmarket index, reac

“I keep reading that Donald Trump is an economic genius,” says Matthew Hennessey in The Wall Street Journal. The story goes that the “punishing recession prophesied by the priests of the economic reli

Investors should consider shifting their focus to ‘old economy’ stocks rather than technology

Things haven’t been great for the UK stockmarket over the last two decades. Indeed, the City has been a “serial underachiever”, especially when compared with the US, says Andrew Jones, a portfolio man