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To: Les H who wrote (190427)9/4/2002 11:08:11 AM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258
 
Japan's banks are trying to pare more than 30 trillion yen of shareholdings in other companies as stock price falls erode their capital-adequacy ratios -- measures of how much capital has to be set aside against risk-weighted assets -- to near minimums.

quote.bloomberg.com

looks like a race condition between the Dow and the Nikkei
the cheaper the assets get, the more shares need to be sold to raise capital