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HAJIME YAGI Overseas investors appear to be on hold on concerns about further US interest rate hikes.
HIDEO MIZUTANI Japan's interest rates are still low. The rate- differential story still attracts Japanese investors...
JUN KITAZAWA When the yen falls against the dollar it changes the appetite of Japanese investors for U.S. bonds. ...
DAVID GOLDMAN Short-term players are trying to book gains on dollar-short positions and there is also buying by Ja...
AKIHIRO TANAKA There's still grave concerns about the Japanese economy, which should prove negative for the yen.
JOE FRANCOMANO The news augurs well for the Japanese economy as confidence is now spreading through the full spectr...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG Expectations foreign investors will keep putting more money into Japanese equities are supporting th...
TETSU AIKAWA Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII Japanese investors have just started kicking in offshore investment at the beginning of the new fisc...
HIDEKI HAYASHI While there are concerns about the slowdown in the U.S. economy, what's keeping investors optimistic...
KOICHI SEKI The price action of the past 10 years shows that while Japanese investors have been sellers of forei...
BOB LYNCH Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. T...
TOMOKO FUJII The Japanese yen will become less of a driver for Asian foreign exchange and the influence of the yu...
IRENE CHEUNG![]()
Japanese individual investors continue to shun risk, and the notion of putting money into foreign as...
DAVID GILMORE The Japanese economy, as the approval of foreign investors has been showing, has undoubtedly improve...
MASAKI ISO I think it's foreign investors who are aggressively buying banking stocks now ... in order to factor...
KOICHIRO SUZUKI Japanese investors are buying overseas assets, seeking higher yields than at home. This trend will r...
KAZUHIRO NISHINA Strong economic figures will confirm the Japanese economy is doing better, reinforcing expectations ...
ETSUKO YAMASHITA I think the Japanese are concerned with the pace of the yen weakening and you have seen comments fro...
HUGH WALSH The Japanese are starting to get worried about the Korean brands for the same reasons the domestics ...
ART SPINELLA We've already seen the yen hit a little bit by people moving away from instant belief that there was...
JACK ROSENTHAL And it was just more robotic statements about the Japanese yen.
ANTHONY CRESCENZI Foreign investors are stepping up purchases of Japanese stocks and that is the main reason the marke...
KOICHI SEKI I think at the moment what they are trying to do is limit yen strength, given the fact that Japanese...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY The Fed's interest-rate increase concerns are receding on the back of evidence growth is slowing. In...
YUTAKA MIURA The markets have already priced in at least one rate hike and are beginning to price in the second r...
TOMOKO FUJII The pre-FOMC caution and lull in the marketplace appears to give traders little reason to put on agg...
ALEX BEUZELIN Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.
ANDRE BAKHOS It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO Investors are now accelerating buying of domestic demand-linked shares such as property developers a...
HARUKI TAKAHASHI Japanese investors are buying the dollar to purchase overseas assets, such as Treasuries.
LUKE WADDINGTON Expectations for higher interest rates are solid now. No one doubts that the Japanese economy is imp...
HIROAKI MUTO Today's decision means the end of zero interest rate policy is coming closer. Less liquidity is avai...
CARSTEN FRITSCH The fundamental feature was the strength of the dollar versus the yen -- and statements that the Jap...
FRED DEMLER We are seeing a belief that the Japanese economy is recovering. The Japanese are going to keep their...
PAUL DONOVAN A strong yen is a minus for Japanese stocks. In addition, a slump in the Nasdaq is negative for Japa...
YUTAKA MIURA Japanese investors are going into Treasuries. The dollar is going to be very well supported.
LUKE WADDINGTON The Japanese economy is making its most serious attempt not to disappoint. The yen will strengthen.
MANFRED WOLF Minister Miyazawa told me that Japan's foreign exchange policy was unchanged, and that excessive wea...
HARUHIKO KURODA It's the continuation of unwinding of yen short positions following further comments from Japanese o...
CARSTEN FRITSCH Japanese institutional investors as well as mutual funds finally started to buy foreign currency-den...
YASUHISA ISHIDA The Japanese economy is improving. The outlook for the yen looks positive given Japan's economic bac...
CHRIS LOONG The market has been somewhat aware of oil and the dollar/yen as potential risks for Japanese shares.
MASAAKI HIGASHIDA The dollar has reversed its course because concerns over an imminent end to the rate hikes have star...
TORU UMEMOTO![]()
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing job...
JAY INSLEE Fed officials are sounding hawkish. They're signaling further rate hikes and that's making investors...
TETSU AIKAWA The Japanese economy hit the bottom a few years ago and now Japanese companies are thinking real har...
KAORU KOYANO Emerging markets have become expensive and we have reduced our exposure. One reason is that Japanese...
HANS GOETTI If the yen continues to strengthen, then it's not a good thing for the Japanese because their export...
TOM BENFER Market participants are relieved as they now see the trend of foreigners exiting the Japanese market...
HIDEO MIZUTANI The markets care about comments by Japanese high-ranking officials, especially after the G-7 meeting...
TETSU AIKAWA With the huge amount of money that Japanese sent abroad, repatriation flows could have a major effec...
YUJI SAITO For overseas investors, who bought large volumes of stocks last year, Japanese equities are no longe...
HIROSHI CHANO These monuments are playing a role of textbooks that helps Japanese people learn about the wartime h...
WANG YI Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO The yen's got some way to run before Japanese officials are going to start to express any concern. T...
BRAD JONES The yen's got some way to run before Japanese officials are going to start to express any concern. T...
BRAD JONES The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those r...
CHARLES C. MANN The Japanese market is closed today, so there are few reasons to prompt investors to either sell or ...
MARCO MAK Japan is really the industrialized country most heavily dependent on oil imports, ... so the most di...
ASHRAF LAIDI If Japanese investors buy U.S. Treasuries, then they have to buy the dollar as well.
ANTJE PRAEFCKE There's no comparison between foreign and Japanese banks. Local lenders have too little earning capa...
NAOKO NEMOTO In Tokyo, Japanese officials are calling ambassadors of countries which voted against or in abstenti...
CHOE MYONG NAM Some investors are betting that Hong Kong won't follow the U.S. rate hikes in May and are moving ahe...
FREDERICK TSANG Domestic institutions were looking for reasons to unwind a good slice of their long positions in the...
MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO It's going to make the Japanese nervous. And it's going to put pressure on the Japanese prime minist...
JIM WALSH It is very possible that the Japanese government ... decided to either leak this story or gave the J...
ANDREW YANG The yen is still soft across the board and I think interest rate differentials are still the driver ...
SHAUN OSBORNE [HOT SECTORS. As a stock-picker, he likes Japanese banks, brokerages, and insurance companies.] Fina...
MARK HEADLEY Investors will be reluctant to try (to push shares) higher as they wait for more information on the ...
MASAYOSHI YANO It seems that foreign selling, partly spurred by relatively expensive Japanese shares, has peaked ou...
HIDEO MIZUTANI This is more a case of investors pouring money into the Japanese economy than a case of investors sc...
CARL WEINBERG Properties were weak as investors were concerned that further rate hikes will affect earnings of dev...
CONITA HUNG China's major trading partners are the United States, the euro land, Japan, Korea, etc., and natural...
ZHOU XIAOCHUAN We're starting to see positive signs that the Japanese business cycle may be moving around. The doll...
HARVINDER KALIRAI![]()
When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.
PHIL COLLINS The data has given investors the impression that both wheels of Japanese business activity - consump...
HIDEYUKI SUZUKI The survey ships are Japanese government ships, not private ships, and Japan has jurisdiction over t...
YOSHINORI KATORI The things that helped support the dollar over the last 18 months or so, such as the Fed interest ra...
BRIAN ROSE![]()
What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain prod...
CARLOS GHOSN We rate all Japanese funds as a nine or 10 out of 10 on the risk scale, but for those investors look...
DARIUS MCDERMOTT You don't need to have a Japanese just because you are a Japanese company. Japan Air operates global...
EITARO ITOYAMA Alan Greenspan's rate hikes aren't just to hold down an economic boom. He's trying to bring investor...
JAMES DINES I won't be surprised to see more falls in the property and financial sectors even if presales of apa...
CASTOR PANG Now market participants are saying that investors should expect range bound trading to continue into...
ANGUS CAMPBELL The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth ...
BRIAN ARABIA Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Concerns that direction could be a firming of the yen has investors a bit wary of holding export-ori...
MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO The market is closely watching if there are any other comments on the US economy or interest rate hi...
MASAMICHI KOIKE The dollar's average break-even level for Japanese manufacturers is estimated at 115.32 yen for the ...
MASAAKI HIGASHIDA It's possible to do it in other ways. Japanese elementary schools are not exactly the same as the Si...
RICHARD ASKEY As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having...
JANIS IAN It's not the Japanese who are causing the market share decline. It's Americans buying the Japanese v...
BRUCE BELZOWSKI Olson's comments reaffirmed our views on the Fed's stance for further interest-rate hikes. The Fed's...
MASAKI FUKUI Unless the outcome contains a major negative surprise, the underlying firm tone of the dollar is exp...
TAKASHI KUDO The question is: Is it economic recovery or government spending [that has boosted the yen recently]?...
LEE FERRIDGE Overseas investors are selling their Nikkei stocks. This is yen negative for sure. Sliding share pri...
TETSU AIKAWA Japanese Americans operated it for many, many years. There was a little consternation in the communi...
ALLEN OKAMOTO
HAJIME YAGI Overseas investors appear to be on hold on concerns about further US interest rate hikes.
HIDEO MIZUTANI Japan's interest rates are still low. The rate- differential story still attracts Japanese investors...
JUN KITAZAWA When the yen falls against the dollar it changes the appetite of Japanese investors for U.S. bonds. ...
DAVID GOLDMAN Short-term players are trying to book gains on dollar-short positions and there is also buying by Ja...
AKIHIRO TANAKA There's still grave concerns about the Japanese economy, which should prove negative for the yen.
JOE FRANCOMANO The news augurs well for the Japanese economy as confidence is now spreading through the full spectr...
BORIS SCHLOSSBERG Expectations foreign investors will keep putting more money into Japanese equities are supporting th...
TETSU AIKAWA Expectations of further Fed rate increases haven't peaked yet, while rate hikes by the Bank of Japan...
TOMOKO FUJII Japanese investors have just started kicking in offshore investment at the beginning of the new fisc...
HIDEKI HAYASHI While there are concerns about the slowdown in the U.S. economy, what's keeping investors optimistic...
KOICHI SEKI The price action of the past 10 years shows that while Japanese investors have been sellers of forei...
BOB LYNCH Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. T...
TOMOKO FUJII The Japanese yen will become less of a driver for Asian foreign exchange and the influence of the yu...
IRENE CHEUNG
Japanese individual investors continue to shun risk, and the notion of putting money into foreign as... DAVID GILMORE The Japanese economy, as the approval of foreign investors has been showing, has undoubtedly improve...
MASAKI ISO I think it's foreign investors who are aggressively buying banking stocks now ... in order to factor...
KOICHIRO SUZUKI Japanese investors are buying overseas assets, seeking higher yields than at home. This trend will r...
KAZUHIRO NISHINA Strong economic figures will confirm the Japanese economy is doing better, reinforcing expectations ...
ETSUKO YAMASHITA I think the Japanese are concerned with the pace of the yen weakening and you have seen comments fro...
HUGH WALSH The Japanese are starting to get worried about the Korean brands for the same reasons the domestics ...
ART SPINELLA We've already seen the yen hit a little bit by people moving away from instant belief that there was...
JACK ROSENTHAL And it was just more robotic statements about the Japanese yen.
ANTHONY CRESCENZI Foreign investors are stepping up purchases of Japanese stocks and that is the main reason the marke...
KOICHI SEKI I think at the moment what they are trying to do is limit yen strength, given the fact that Japanese...
ALLISON MONTGOMERY The Fed's interest-rate increase concerns are receding on the back of evidence growth is slowing. In...
YUTAKA MIURA The markets have already priced in at least one rate hike and are beginning to price in the second r...
TOMOKO FUJII The pre-FOMC caution and lull in the marketplace appears to give traders little reason to put on agg...
ALEX BEUZELIN Investors are looking for a sign as to when rate hikes are going to stop.
ANDRE BAKHOS It's not really that overseas investors are negatively reacting to Japanese stocks overall but rathe...
MITSUSHIGE AKINO Investors are now accelerating buying of domestic demand-linked shares such as property developers a...
HARUKI TAKAHASHI Japanese investors are buying the dollar to purchase overseas assets, such as Treasuries.
LUKE WADDINGTON Expectations for higher interest rates are solid now. No one doubts that the Japanese economy is imp...
HIROAKI MUTO Today's decision means the end of zero interest rate policy is coming closer. Less liquidity is avai...
CARSTEN FRITSCH The fundamental feature was the strength of the dollar versus the yen -- and statements that the Jap...
FRED DEMLER We are seeing a belief that the Japanese economy is recovering. The Japanese are going to keep their...
PAUL DONOVAN A strong yen is a minus for Japanese stocks. In addition, a slump in the Nasdaq is negative for Japa...
YUTAKA MIURA Japanese investors are going into Treasuries. The dollar is going to be very well supported.
LUKE WADDINGTON The Japanese economy is making its most serious attempt not to disappoint. The yen will strengthen.
MANFRED WOLF Minister Miyazawa told me that Japan's foreign exchange policy was unchanged, and that excessive wea...
HARUHIKO KURODA It's the continuation of unwinding of yen short positions following further comments from Japanese o...
CARSTEN FRITSCH Japanese institutional investors as well as mutual funds finally started to buy foreign currency-den...
YASUHISA ISHIDA The Japanese economy is improving. The outlook for the yen looks positive given Japan's economic bac...
CHRIS LOONG The market has been somewhat aware of oil and the dollar/yen as potential risks for Japanese shares.
MASAAKI HIGASHIDA The dollar has reversed its course because concerns over an imminent end to the rate hikes have star...
TORU UMEMOTO
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing job... JAY INSLEE Fed officials are sounding hawkish. They're signaling further rate hikes and that's making investors...
TETSU AIKAWA The Japanese economy hit the bottom a few years ago and now Japanese companies are thinking real har...
KAORU KOYANO Emerging markets have become expensive and we have reduced our exposure. One reason is that Japanese...
HANS GOETTI If the yen continues to strengthen, then it's not a good thing for the Japanese because their export...
TOM BENFER Market participants are relieved as they now see the trend of foreigners exiting the Japanese market...
HIDEO MIZUTANI The markets care about comments by Japanese high-ranking officials, especially after the G-7 meeting...
TETSU AIKAWA With the huge amount of money that Japanese sent abroad, repatriation flows could have a major effec...
YUJI SAITO For overseas investors, who bought large volumes of stocks last year, Japanese equities are no longe...
HIROSHI CHANO These monuments are playing a role of textbooks that helps Japanese people learn about the wartime h...
WANG YI Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO The yen's got some way to run before Japanese officials are going to start to express any concern. T...
BRAD JONES The yen's got some way to run before Japanese officials are going to start to express any concern. T...
BRAD JONES The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those r...
CHARLES C. MANN The Japanese market is closed today, so there are few reasons to prompt investors to either sell or ...
MARCO MAK Japan is really the industrialized country most heavily dependent on oil imports, ... so the most di...
ASHRAF LAIDI If Japanese investors buy U.S. Treasuries, then they have to buy the dollar as well.
ANTJE PRAEFCKE There's no comparison between foreign and Japanese banks. Local lenders have too little earning capa...
NAOKO NEMOTO In Tokyo, Japanese officials are calling ambassadors of countries which voted against or in abstenti...
CHOE MYONG NAM Some investors are betting that Hong Kong won't follow the U.S. rate hikes in May and are moving ahe...
FREDERICK TSANG Domestic institutions were looking for reasons to unwind a good slice of their long positions in the...
MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO It's going to make the Japanese nervous. And it's going to put pressure on the Japanese prime minist...
JIM WALSH It is very possible that the Japanese government ... decided to either leak this story or gave the J...
ANDREW YANG The yen is still soft across the board and I think interest rate differentials are still the driver ...
SHAUN OSBORNE [HOT SECTORS. As a stock-picker, he likes Japanese banks, brokerages, and insurance companies.] Fina...
MARK HEADLEY Investors will be reluctant to try (to push shares) higher as they wait for more information on the ...
MASAYOSHI YANO It seems that foreign selling, partly spurred by relatively expensive Japanese shares, has peaked ou...
HIDEO MIZUTANI This is more a case of investors pouring money into the Japanese economy than a case of investors sc...
CARL WEINBERG Properties were weak as investors were concerned that further rate hikes will affect earnings of dev...
CONITA HUNG China's major trading partners are the United States, the euro land, Japan, Korea, etc., and natural...
ZHOU XIAOCHUAN We're starting to see positive signs that the Japanese business cycle may be moving around. The doll...
HARVINDER KALIRAI
When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food. PHIL COLLINS The data has given investors the impression that both wheels of Japanese business activity - consump...
HIDEYUKI SUZUKI The survey ships are Japanese government ships, not private ships, and Japan has jurisdiction over t...
YOSHINORI KATORI The things that helped support the dollar over the last 18 months or so, such as the Fed interest ra...
BRIAN ROSE
What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain prod... CARLOS GHOSN We rate all Japanese funds as a nine or 10 out of 10 on the risk scale, but for those investors look...
DARIUS MCDERMOTT You don't need to have a Japanese just because you are a Japanese company. Japan Air operates global...
EITARO ITOYAMA Alan Greenspan's rate hikes aren't just to hold down an economic boom. He's trying to bring investor...
JAMES DINES I won't be surprised to see more falls in the property and financial sectors even if presales of apa...
CASTOR PANG Now market participants are saying that investors should expect range bound trading to continue into...
ANGUS CAMPBELL The Japanese economy is turning around, as evidenced by the machine tool orders. If signs of growth ...
BRIAN ARABIA Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Concerns that direction could be a firming of the yen has investors a bit wary of holding export-ori...
MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO The market is closely watching if there are any other comments on the US economy or interest rate hi...
MASAMICHI KOIKE The dollar's average break-even level for Japanese manufacturers is estimated at 115.32 yen for the ...
MASAAKI HIGASHIDA It's possible to do it in other ways. Japanese elementary schools are not exactly the same as the Si...
RICHARD ASKEY As the market now feels that any interest rate hikes in the US will come to an end with the Federal ...
KAZUYUKI KATO I know just enough Japanese to get by if I get lost and greet an audience properly, just from having...
JANIS IAN It's not the Japanese who are causing the market share decline. It's Americans buying the Japanese v...
BRUCE BELZOWSKI Olson's comments reaffirmed our views on the Fed's stance for further interest-rate hikes. The Fed's...
MASAKI FUKUI Unless the outcome contains a major negative surprise, the underlying firm tone of the dollar is exp...
TAKASHI KUDO The question is: Is it economic recovery or government spending [that has boosted the yen recently]?...
LEE FERRIDGE Overseas investors are selling their Nikkei stocks. This is yen negative for sure. Sliding share pri...
TETSU AIKAWA Japanese Americans operated it for many, many years. There was a little consternation in the communi...
ALLEN OKAMOTO
