What began the year as one of the best trades in the stock market has, in a matter of months, turned into one of the worst. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/07/markets/cryptocurrency-trade-collapse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #cryptocurrencies #investments
Man Group’s large-cap Japan value fund is shifting more to domestic-focus stocks as it expects the agenda of the nation’s new administration to benefit local economies. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/05/markets/man-group-japan-fund-domestic-stocks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #stocks #investments
The EU on Wednesday releases its plan to try to end the 27-nation bloc's dependence on China for rare earths, as Beijing's stranglehold threatens key industries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/03/markets/eu-china-rare-earths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #eu #china #rareearths
The Bank of Japan has rattled markets globally with its hint of a rate rise, with Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s hawkish comments Monday hitting bonds, stocks and crypto. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/02/markets/bond-rout-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #boj #japaneseeconomy #jgb #kazuoueda #bonds
Japan’s two-year note yield rose to its highest level since 2008, and the yen gained against the dollar on signs the Bank of Japan is moving closer to an interest-rate hike. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/01/markets/two-year-yield-highest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #boj #japaneseeconomy #jgbs #kazuoueda
U.S. President Donald Trump said he has decided on his pick for the next Federal Reserve chair, without naming his choice, after making clear he expects his nominee to deliver interest-rate cuts. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/01/markets/trump-choice-federal-reserve/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #us #donaldtrump #federalreserve #jeromepowell
Australia’s massive defense spending under the AUKUS agreement is poised to further fuel the nation’s hottest housing market, Perth, according to property group Ray White. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/01/markets/aukus-australia-housing-market/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #perth #aukus #housing #australia
brendan (#39C3に行こう)
boosted
Japanese and South Korean tech stocks plummeted on Friday, with tech investor SoftBank plunging more than 10% as fears over an AI bubble weighed on the market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/21/markets/tech-stocks-ai-fear/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #ai #southkorea #tech #softbank #us #nvidia #openai #chipmakers
Markets have lost their enthusiasm for Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, with about $127 billion wiped off the value of Tokyo-listed stocks over the past week and sharp declines in the yen and government bonds. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/22/markets/takaichi-market-tests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #stocks #investments #sanaetakaichi #economicindicators #china #japaneseeconomy #yen
‘Sell-Japan’ trade takes a breather as verbal intervention dialed up slightly and stimulus package that so worried the market within expectations https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/21/markets/sell-japan-pause/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #forex #currencies #yen #dollar #financeministry #japaneseeconomy #sanaetakaichi #boj #kazuoueda
Japanese and South Korean tech stocks plummeted on Friday, with tech investor SoftBank plunging more than 10% as fears over an AI bubble weighed on the market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/21/markets/tech-stocks-ai-fear/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #ai #southkorea #tech #softbank #us #nvidia #openai #chipmakers
Yen and Japanese bonds continue to retreat ahead of super-big stimulus and as verbal intervention from top officials is lacking. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/20/markets/market-turmoil-thursday/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #forex #currencies #yen #dollar #financeministry #japaneseeconomy #sanaetakaichi #boj #kazuoueda
The Turkish lira, which has plunged over 16% against the yen this year, has become one of the hottest bets for Japan’s risk-hungry day traders — raising fears yen intervention or lira volatility could wipe them out. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/20/markets/japan-retail-investors-turkish-lira-buy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #yen #forex #lira #turkey #investments
A yen rout has brought talk of ¥160 to the dollar and possible intervention as Japan's new administration is hit by a triple whammy of falling stocks, bonds and currency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/19/markets/yen-160-intervention/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #forex #currencies #yen #dollar #financeministry #japaneseeconomy #sanaetakaichi #boj #kazuoueda
Faced with a profit-destroying price war at home and a growing surplus of new cars rolling out of factory lines, Chinese car makers are widening their footprint across South America. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/19/markets/china-ev-south-america-tesla/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #electricvehicles #southamerica #tesla #carmakers #latinamerica #carmakers #china
Rio Tinto Group is imposing surcharges on aluminum shipments it sells to the U.S., putting further pressure on consumers in North America already faced with higher costs due to tariffs. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/18/markets/aluminum-markups-trump-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #aluminum #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #metals #manufacturing #riotinto
Consumers in China are increasingly turning to homegrown labels over LVMH and Gucci as the economy cools, embracing the message that modern luxury can be proudly Chinese. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/17/markets/china-local-luxury-lvmh-gucci/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #luxurygoods #china #lvmh #gucci #fashion #louisvuitton #kering #burberry #rolex #chanel #songmont #maogeping #laopugold
European Union officials may cut growth forecasts for 2026 in the coming week in an assessment of damage to the region’s economy, a year after Donald Trump won back the White House. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/16/markets/europe-fallout-trump-trade-chaos/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #republicans #europe #eu
The euphoria surrounding Labubu toys is starting to resemble the boom-and-bust cycle that ended in the collapse of Beanie Babies in the 1990s, a warning sign for investors, a bearish analyst says. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/16/markets/pop-mart-labubu-beanie-baby/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #popmart #labubu #beaniebabies #toys
Michael Foster
boosted
" #DavidGraeber was the #anthropologist who re-framed economics by showing that its most basic assumptions were myths.
Where conventional economists traced money to barter and exchange, #Graeber traced it to trust and relationships. He argued that the origins of money lay not in #markets but in #morality: in obligations, promises, and the human capacity for cooperation."