Hitachi Stock Forum

At the beginning of this year, Japanese stocks briefly led the global market, breaking a 34-year-old record high. However, the continuous depreciation of the yen has recently hindered their upward momentum. Unlike the strong surge seen from last year to earlier this year, Japanese stocks are now facing accumulating uncertainties. After reaching a historic high, the Nikkei 225 Index has been consolidating sideways for quite a while, fl...

Betting on the yen's strengthening became a favored strategy over the past year as the Bank of Japan(BOJ) was set to wrap up an eight-year period of negative interest rates in the face of rising inflation. Yet, rather than appreciating, the yen continued to weaken subsequent to theend of negative interest rates.
On April 24th, the Japanese yen continued its slump against the US dollar, breaching the key level of 155 fo...

Following the BOJ's recent departure from negative interest rates and its first rate hike in 17 years, Berkshire Hathaway is planning to issue yen-denominated bonds globally once again. Daiwa Securities strategist Atsuko Ishitoya suggests this may lead to increased investment in Japanese trading firms.
Alongside Buffett, Wall Street giants like Goldman Sachs Asset Management are eyeing Japan, favorin...