Latest from IPE Magazine – Page 755
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Features
Scepticism still the prevailing mood
A year ago at this time, market watchers in Japan were still hopeful that momentum from the nearly 60% surge in share prices in 1999 would carry over into 2000. The first few months of 2000 saw the TOPIX index covering Tokyo Stock Exchange first-section companies—some 1,450 stocks—hover around the ...
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Features
Property market shows new life
Foreign investors, especially opportunistic US funds, have been eyeing Japan’s property markets for much of the past 10 years, waiting for cheap assets to be offered. But it has been very frustrating for almost all the ‘foreigners’. Patience could soon be rewarded. Although impeded by political inertia, pressure from the ...
