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Strategies & Market Trends : JAPAN-Nikkei-Time to go back up? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (609)	12/22/1997 10:17:00 PM
From: chirodoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3902

<<<<<When this marker turns up, it will go like wildfire. i am thinking about giving the market 1-2 more months for more bank failures and brokerage houses to go under. when i see one more positive utterance from herbert hoover hashimoto i am in. i will dollar cost average $1-3K per month because you really can't pick the bottom--as you so said. i am looking at: honda, nomura, sony, NTT, tokyo mitusbishi bank, amway japan, canon, fuji, and fujitsu. what is on your shopping list?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (609)	12/23/1997 12:09:00 PM
From: Real Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3902

You might be hurt pretty badly falling from -15 to -25. Japan has to clear that bad debt. This might mean more financial institutions going bankrupt. This should be bullish long term, but I doubt people will react positively to it. Besides, the Yen is falling, and has more room to fall. This hurts when you make a foreign investment. This asian mess has created many bargains. Right now Japan is just one of them. I would be looking at other asian countries which have dramatically devalued their currency. Korea, Malasya, Taiwan, Thailand - you name it. -Vi