Highlights of this week:
It is expected that Japanese stocks will reach a short-term consolidation phase this week. With fewer important economic indicators to be released and the completion of earnings reports for domestic and foreign companies, there will be fewer individual catalysts.There is a lack of new clues.On the other hand, depending on the performance of the leading semiconductor company in the United States, $NVIDIA (NVDA.US)$there is a possibility that the movement of stock index in the United States and Japan may become turbulent. In addition, the United States will have a public holiday on the 19th, and Japan will have a public holiday on the 23rd.
The biggest highlight of this week is the earnings announcement by Nvidia on the 21st.The company's stock, which surpassed Alphabet and became the third largest US company by market capitalization on the 14th, has a lot of market expectations.Whether the semiconductor market will gain further momentum or exhaust its positive catalysts in the earnings announcement will greatly affect the overall market sentiment.The US stock options market isIt is assumed that the company's stock will move significantly after the earnings report.Investors who have missed the upward trend in Japanese stocks since the beginning of the year are likely to take this opportunity.