The Yen Drag

I thought this chart was interesting. It shows how much better the Nikkei Index has done than the iShares MSCI Japan Index ($EWJ) which is, of course, denominated in dollars. Japanese stocks are indeed doing well but devaluation explains some of it, though not all of it.

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Posted by on February 12th, 2013 at 7:07 pm


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