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- Mar. 12, 1990: Business Notes:Financial Markets
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 65
- Business Notes
- FINANCIAL MARKETS
- Beware the Triple Whammy
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- <body>
- <p> During the 1980s, the Japanese spoke of the "Triple Merits"
- that were driving the Tokyo stock market's extraordinary rise: a
- strong yen, low interest rates and falling oil prices. Now that
- the Tokyo market is on a rocky slide, investors have labeled the
- culprits the Triple Demerits: a weakening yen, growing inflation
- and rising interest rates. The triple whammy has sent the Nikkei
- index down nearly 15% so far this year. In one session last week
- the index dived 1,569 points, or 4.5%, the biggest one-day loss
- since the 1987 crash. The index lurched up and down for the rest
- of the week, closing down 833 points, at 34,057.56.
- </p>
- <p> The falloff in stock prices suggests that the Tokyo market
- is newly vulnerable to financial forces beyond its borders. Most
- notably, Japan is feeling the effects of higher interest rates
- in West Germany, where the yield of government bonds has climbed
- briskly, largely due to concerns over the cost of monetary union
- with East Germany.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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