Japanese Savings Rates Soar in 2018:Â A Blow to Abe's Plans but a Boon for Discount Retailing
Average monthly savings rates and total savings stocks have long been high in Japan, but savings rates broke all records in June 2018. In one...
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Retail Ranking FY2017-18: Winners and Losers in Japanese Retailing
JapanConsuming’s retail ranking for FY2017 has now been compiled, and the results show that the retail industry enjoyed another extremely good year...
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Consumption Trends in Japan: Rising Incomes Boosting Retailers but a Lot Going Into Savings Too
Much has been made of gradually rising wages in Japan, and this is indeed good news after 20 years of stagnation and negative growth. But while...
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Names Down the Previous Year, Tend to Go up the Next in Japan.....
We looked back over the last 30Â years to see how names that are down over the previous year perform in the next. We found that since 1987 names...
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August Is All About Quality and Momentum and Definitely Not About Beta....
High Beta names do not do well in August in Japan. In fact, August is the worst month out of the year for high Beta names. On the other side, names...
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