Nihon Keizai Shimbun (WSJ of Japan) now online

[mooncliff]

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Japan Economic Times) is the Wall St. Journal of Japan.
I think these sites are fairly new, so many may not be aware of this resource. I subscribe to the paper version, and boy is it slow going!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihon_Keizai_Shimbun

In English
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/freetop.aspx

In Japanese (try running through Google Translate)
http://www.nikkei.com/

If you are interested in learning to read the Japanese, install Rikai in for example, Firefox, or get Rikai app for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch. IT IS AMAZING! You touch the Japanese text and a window pops up with the English meaning and the pronunciation!!! Twenty years I have suffered looking up words. The pain, suffering, wasted time... Oh well, now go, go, go at internet speed!

[LargoWinch]

Re: Nihon Keizai Shimbun (WSJ of Japan) now online

Just in time for the Nikkei to break the 9,000 barrier on the downside yet again...

[mooncliff]

Re: Nihon Keizai Shimbun (WSJ of Japan) now online

Hey, but the purchasing power has doubled in the last 20 years! And JPY vs USD has doubled. So it is still at 20,000, and if the dollar drops by half as EJ thinks, it will be at 40,000 again!

[LargoWinch]

Re: Nihon Keizai Shimbun (WSJ of Japan) now online

Hey, but the purchasing power has doubled in the last 20 years! And JPY vs USD has doubled. So it is still at 20,000, and if the dollar drops by half as EJ thinks, it will be at 40,000 again!

Very good point, the yen may well double vs. the USD, but I think it is fair to say that the purchasing power of the yen will also fall against commodities.

EJ btw calls for the USDX (or similar can't remember) at around 40 and such index is composed at 50%+ with the Euro...