Yutaka Miura
Yutaka Miura
banking issues
It's pretty much up to how banking issues fare,
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High-tech issues are surrounded by persistent fears over possible profit warnings as we get closer to the mid-year book closing in September.
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I'm looking for a softer start to the week and technology shares may be vulnerable to declines.
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The Fed's interest-rate increase concerns are receding on the back of evidence growth is slowing. Investors are taking that as a positive for stocks and that's serving as an incentive to buy right now.
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While the stronger yen threatens to eat into the profits of exporters, it's also attracting foreigners by increasing their dollar-denominated return.
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There's greater concern now about further U.S. interest rate increases and that will dampen the overall Japanese market. Natural resources-related shares may rise, but hi-tech and autos may fall on concern about reduced overseas demand.
continue hold hope move reform watch
There's not disappointment here, but also nothing to move the market. We still hold out hope for reform and will continue to watch developments carefully.
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The trend is for a weaker dollar, which will hurt companies, especially exporters.
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Oil prices need to be watched closely, so any drop from recent highs will help. Even when it comes to the Internet companies, there's a sense that we need to start looking at the fundamentals again.
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The slide in U.S. stocks looks non-stop. This is not a good sign for Tokyo, especially for high-tech exporters,
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Basically, I think the desire to wait and see is very strong right now. That being said, U.S. stocks, especially the Nasdaq index, were weaker ... so the market is likely to move lower.
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It's hard to find shares of exporters to be attractive when the situation in the U.S. seems pessimistic.
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You can't ignore the fact that concerns about U.S. economic growth are starting to spread. We've reached a point where it's hard to justify aggressive buying from here.
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U.S. stocks started off the year posting broad gains on the opinion that interest-rate increases are coming to an end. Taking cues from that, Japanese stocks ... with a focus on high-tech issues, are likely to move higher.