{"id":477976,"date":"2025-10-06T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477976\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T11:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:10:18","slug":"political-surprises-in-japan-and-france-catch-investors-off-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477976\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Surprises in Japan and France Catch Investors Off Guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Political developments in Japan and France are sending shockwaves through financial markets. One element they share is surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><strong>First, Japan:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-10-05\/yen-falls-after-takaichi-win-japan-stocks-may-get-boost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Japanese stocks surged to a record high<\/a> after a party leadership vote made pro-stimulus lawmaker Sanae Takaichi a virtual lock to be the country\u2019s next prime minister. Along with more government spending that could fan inflation, investors are now preparing for a dovish tilt at the central bank. The yen lost 1.8% against the dollar and sank to an all-time low against the euro. Longer-term bonds fell, with the yield on the 10-year bond hitting the highest since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Political developments in Japan and France are sending shockwaves through financial markets. One element they share is surprise.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2257,3420,51,6906,2000,73822,299,14441,7372,36,158805,2122,2441,7063],"class_list":{"0":"post-477976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-democratic-party","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-euro-spot","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european-central-bank","16":"tag-federal-reserve","17":"tag-france","18":"tag-generic-1st-gc-future","19":"tag-japan","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-stocks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115326918720645731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}