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

To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (1745)	3/4/1999 10:06:00 AM
From: fut_trade	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3902

...Perhaps the best buys right now My favorite has been Softbank. It was trading at about 2000 on the OTC market in late '97. Since it moved to the TSE it has more than quadrupled and now trades at 8000+. quote.yahoo.co.jp

To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (1745)	3/7/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: borb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3902

Yen would not be too low in the near term for the fiscical year end on March 31st. As for the government is trying to face the problem and create more civil jobs, this will help to bring up spending a bit. I would like to see Nikkei return to 17K range or over by end of the year.

To: Professor Dotcomm who wrote (1745)	3/7/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: chirodoc	Respond to of 3902

ONE IN THREE COMPANIES CONSIDER 401(k) PENSIONS Three out of 10 Japanese companies are favorably inclined toward offering employees so-called defined-contribution pension plans modeled on the 401(k) pension plans available in the U.S., according to a survey by the Japan Productivity Center for Socio-Economic Development. Larger companies are more positive about introducing the plan and say the main reason is that there is no risk of being obliged to shoulder an additional financial burden to support pension-fund assets. Four out of five respondents agreed with this view. The pension program varies benefits depending on the returns on investments employees make in their choice of financial instruments. The September survey covered personnel managers at 2,319 companies, 436 of which provided valid responses, with 4.6% saying they are very interested in introducing the pension plans and 25.5% saying they will consider it. Almost half of the companies employing more than 3,000 staff, or 48.2%, said they may introduce the plan