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Today’s Best Market Rumors (8/25/2010) Japan Trouble, Dubai Sale

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 9:10 am

Updated throughout the day. The Bank of Japan may act to drive down the value of the yen (various) Dubai will sell valuable assets to reduce its debt. (Reuters) Douglas ...
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Nikkei Sells Off 2% In Early Trading

Posted: June 29, 2010 at 9:08 pm

Sony (NYSE: SNE), Casio, Mazda, and Okuma Corporation down more than 3%. Douglas A. McIntyre ...
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Japan: A Balanced Budget Or Bust

Posted: June 22, 2010 at 5:36 am

Japan's new ruling party says that the country's budget will be balanced by 2020 and that massive bond sales to cover the country's large sovereign debt will become less and ...
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Japan Fears That It Is Next Greece

Posted: June 11, 2010 at 5:40 am

Japan could be the next Greece, at least according to its new prime minister who use to be the nation's finance minister. "It is difficult to sustain a policy that ...
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Global Financial Crisis Risks Move From Credit To Politics As Japan’s Prime Minister Resigns

Posted: June 1, 2010 at 9:34 pm

The causes of the global financial crisis of 2008 were almost entirely flaws in the credit system based on leverage, exotic financial instruments, and a sharp drop in American ...
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IMF Points To Japan As Next Trouble Spot

Posted: May 20, 2010 at 4:59 am

The IMF had indicated that Japan may be the next trouble spot in the global economy, adding it to a list of several counties in Europe. The  agency visited the ...
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Which Countries Own America’s Debt?

Posted: January 13, 2010 at 1:52 pm

The American government owes just shy of $3.5 trillion to foreign governments, corporations and individuals.  The lion's share of this is owned to China and Japan, which own 22.8% ...
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Forgetting About Japan

Posted: February 10, 2009 at 5:26 am

Most of the focus of the recession has been on the US and China. It makes sense to try to examine economic activity in the world’s largest consuming economy and ...
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