Abe falls short of supermajority – and that’s good

Investors should feel confident that Japan’s revitalization is more likely to succeed without the LDP getting everything it wanted.

Shinzo Abe: denied

Jame DiBiasio

July 23, 2013

The Japanese stock market greeted Sunday’s triumph for Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in the upper house of the Diet with indifference, as the Nikkei 225 futures index fell 2.6% in the first 12 minutes of trading yesterday.

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