{"id":125510,"date":"2025-10-16T09:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125510\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T09:26:09","slug":"japans-market-boom-to-continue-despite-political-uncertainty-fidelity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/125510\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s market boom to continue despite political uncertainty: Fidelity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japan\u2019s stock market is expected to extend its rally if the next government continues efforts to boost economic growth and prevent the country from returning to deflation, investment managers at Fidelity International said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The benchmark Nikkei 225 index reached a record high of 48,580.44 on October 9, surpassing the 1989 Japanese economic bubble-era peak, as political parties vied for influence ahead of a parliamentary vote next week to elect the country\u2019s next leader.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Whether the market maintained its momentum hinged on whether the government would \u201ccontinue the growth strategy [it had pursued] for the last decade\u201d, rather than on who held the leadership position, said Miyuki Kashima, head of investments Japan at Fidelity.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">During Japan\u2019s so-called \u201clost decades\u201d of stagnation and deflation, coupled with rising unemployment and hiring cuts, between the 1990s and 2010s, the government rolled out monetary and fiscal stimulus measures to battle slowing growth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Japan\u2019s benchmark Nikkei 225 index has reached record highs above 48,000 this month. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/caea6954-8e1c-46b6-bdd2-065433b2397e_70f36509.jpg\" title=\"Japan\u2019s benchmark Nikkei 225 index has reached record highs above 48,000 this month. Photo: AFP\"\/>Japan\u2019s benchmark Nikkei 225 index has reached record highs above 48,000 this month. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kashima said it would be inconceivable for any new ruling coalition to reverse course and allow Japan to fall back into old deflationary patterns.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Japan\u2019s economy is experiencing inflation. The economy was likely to continue to grow, with deflation having ended, according to Kashima. Companies were \u201cinvesting, not holding up all the cash, which starts to create a positive spiral in the economy\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s stock market is expected to extend its rally if the next government continues efforts to boost economic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[15034,79,14625,2784,18,76089,19,185,76087,17,386,76090,76086,36277,188,76084,76085,76088,8639,76083],"class_list":{"0":"post-125510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-bank-of-japan","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-deflation","11":"tag-economic-growth","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-fidelity-international","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-inflation","16":"tag-investment-managers","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-japan","19":"tag-japan-bond-yield","20":"tag-japanese-companies","21":"tag-liberal-democratic-party","22":"tag-markets","23":"tag-miyuki-kashima","24":"tag-nikkei-index","25":"tag-parliamentary-vote","26":"tag-tokyo","27":"tag-zeng-min"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}