The Mysterious Japanese Stock Market Rally

Read More: http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-mysterious-japanese-stock-market.html

Each day I check out the major stock markets.  This morning I saw that Hong Kong and Singapore were down over 1%.  Britain, Germany and France were also down.  But the Japanese market, which tends to move with the other Asian markets, was up by 1.90%.  That’s a surprisingly large divergence.  Is there any news?  It turns out that there is news, but only if you don’t believe in “liquidity traps.”  Travis Allison sent me the following:

The yen slumped to the lowest in more than six months against the dollar on prospects Japanese elections next month will hand power to an opposition party that advocates more aggressive monetary easing.

Read More: http://newswalls.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-mysterious-japanese-stock-market.html