Japan: slow progress

Article Abstract:

Japanese corporate profits are recovering, and fears about the country's banking system are receding, which is helping a recovery in the stock market. Share prices are still likely to have dropped over 1995. Foreign investors are more optimistic about Japanese share prices than are domestic investors. There is still concern about the slow recovery of economic growth in Japan. Growth of gross domestic product is forecast at some 1% for the 1995-1996 FY and the recession may not have ended.

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Japan: stay overweight

Article Abstract:

There are a number of factors which favor the Japanese economy and share prices, according to Goldman Sachs. These factors include a drop in the value of the Japanese yen, and fiscal and monetary policy geared toward reflation. Capital spending is likely to promote recovery and corporate profits are likely to improve. A major drop in the value of the yen, an increase in buying of equities by Japanese investors, and further reflationary measures would all help boost share prices.

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