JOF News and Press, Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund Inc From 07/22/20

Japanese business activity contracted further in July, according to flash PMI data, adding to concerns about the depth of the economic downturn and recovery speed relative to other countries as conditions remain challenging for many manufacturing and service sector companies due to the COVID-1...

"No one has to change, survival is optional." - Dr. W. Edwards Deming "If Japan can… Why can't we?" was an American television episode broadcast by NBC News as part of the television show "NBC White Paper" on June 24, 1980. Credited with beginning the Quality Revolution and intr...

Pushed down by the initial effects of the coronavirus pandemic, the world's third-largest economy shrank an annualized 3.4% in the January-March period. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust ETF, News on ETFs, ...

Las Vegas Sands (NYSE: LVS ) says it won't move forward with its plans in Japan because the framework around the development of an integrated resort has made its goals there unreachable. More news on: Las Vegas Sands Corp., iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF,...

Further boosting monetary stimulus, the BOJ said it will "purchase a necessary amount of Japanese government bonds," echoing similar language used by the U.S. Federal Reserve last month. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japa...

In chapter 3 of Peter Lynch's 1994 book Beating The Street , where he describes different types of funds, he writes "Many closed-end funds are more popularly known as country funds." Before many of the first single-country tracking exchange-traded funds (ETFs) launched in 1996, the easies...

Japan is finalizing plans for a massive stimulus package worth ¥108T ($990B) - equal to 20% of its economic output - to counter the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Tr...

Japan's PM Shinzo Abe promised 'unprecedented stimulus' to mitigate the economic effects of rise in COVID-19 cases, reports Reuters. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust ETF, Global news and forex, Top stock m...

Following moves from the ECB and RBA , the Bank of Japan sought to stem a bond market rout by pledging to spend billions of dollars and implement yield curve control. More news on: iShares MSCI Japan ETF, WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF, Invesco CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust ETF,...

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...