Earthquake Rebuild Spurs Japan Small Caps - Bloomberg

Earthquake Rebuild Spurs Japan Small Caps - Bloomberg - San Francisco Luxury News

Enlarge image Tokyo Small-Cap Stocks Head for Longest Win Streak Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Employees work on the trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo, Japan. Employees work on the trading floor of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo, Japan. Photographer: Tomohiro Ohsumi/Bloomberg Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Kenji Abe, an equity strategist at Citigroup Global Markets Japan Inc., talks about the nation’s stock market. He also discusses the implications of Olympus Corp.’s accounting scandal on corporate governance in Japan. He speaks from Tokyo with Susan Li on Bloomberg Television’s “First Up.” (Source: Bloomberg) Japan ’s $ 250 billion in spending to rebuild after last year’s record earthquake is propelling the longest streak of advances in more than 50 years for the country’s smaller stocks. Japan’s TSE Second Section Price Index (TSE2) , a capitalization- weighted m...

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