JOF News and Press, Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund Inc From 03/16/20

Echoing the Fed's move overnight, the BOJ said it would increase its annual purchasing pace of ETFs from the previous level of ¥6T ($56B) per year to ¥12T. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust ETF, G...

Thesis: WisdomTree Japan SmallCap Dividend ETF ( DFJ ) is a great way to take advantage of the small cap dividend growth trend taking place in Japan; Dividend growth investing paired with a net net investing strategy may be the most profitable investment strategy in Japan. ( source ) When ...

This past week saw a couple of interesting developments. On Wednesday, the Fed released the minutes from their January meeting with comments which largely bypassed overly bullish investors. "… several participants observed that equity, corporate debt, and CRE valuations wer...

The coronavirus spreading across Asia and the world is very likely to hammer Japan and the yen. Some people consider the Japanese yen a "safe-haven" currency where they can safely store their wealth in times of financial turmoil. This flies in the face of reason because Japan is destined to ev...

The world's third largest economy contracted at an annualized rate of 6.3% in the last three months of 2019, as a sales tax hike took a bite out of consumer and business spending. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japanese Yen ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 06, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund, Inc. (NYSE: JOF) (the “Fund”) announced that it would make an ordinary income distribution of $0.2703 per share, a short-term capital gains distribution of $0.1259 per share, and a long-term capital...

As protests roil the city, the Hong Kong government announced an additional 4B Hong Kong dollars ($511M) in economic stimulus, bringing its total boost to 25B Hong Kong dollars (about $3.2B). More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares...

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is sub...

"To speed up our recovery [from natural disasters], deal with risks from abroad and accelerate productivity growth, we are formulating an economic plan along the lines of a 15-month budget," said Yoshihide Suga, Japan's chief cabinet secretary. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, Wisdo...

Photo Source: REUTERS/Yuri Gripas. China's Vice Premier Liu He looks on during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 11, 2019. For the month, 61% of all closed-end funds (BATS: CEFS ) posted net-asset-value ((NAV))-b...