After all, it wasn't a bad number. It's just that the market had positioned for something even better.
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People are still digesting Friday's data and wondering whether the short-term reaction to sell the dollar was right,
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The question is Is it economic recovery or government spending that has boosted the yen recently I tend to think it's the latter. There is little incentive to buy Japanese stocks at the present time, and really, little incentive to buy yen.
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The market did go up a little on the news but now we're coming back down again because I think the good news is factored in,
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