Japan
Investment
Japan's stock market lost almost 7% after its first full day of trading following the earthquake and tsunami that struck the country on Friday.
14 March 2011
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Investment
A major earthquake in Japan has rocked markets, which were already fragile yesterday as the FTSE 100 hit a five-week low.
11 March 2011
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Investment
GLG has hired Jeffery Atherton as co-manager for the £1.1bn Japan CoreAlpha and £490m Japan CoreAlpha Equity funds, to work with Stephen Harker and Neil Edwards.
09 March 2011
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Asia
Japan's credit rating has been cut to ‘negative' by Moody's on debt level concerns.
22 February 2011
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Asia
William Littlewood, manager of the £798m Artemis Strategic Assets fund, explains why he is bearish on Japanese bonds but favours Asian currencies, and why he is not buying miners.
21 February 2011
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Asia
Artemis' William Littlewood is running a "significant" short on Japanese government bonds in the view they will be damaged by Japan's high public debt.
21 February 2011
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Investment
China has eclipsed Japan as the world's second largest economy after posting GDP figures of $5.8trn for 2010, beating Japan's $5.474trn.
14 February 2011
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Asia
Dalton Strategic Partnership's global head of asset allocation Andrew Dalton is seeing value in out-of-favour Japanese equities and predicts this year they could perform as strongly as in 2005.
07 February 2011
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