Global hedge funds are vying for allocations from Japan’s corporate pension fund managers, who oversee about $ 740 billion and are seeking alternatives to stocks following the March earthquake.
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Japan’s policy makers, striving for more than two years to end deflation, refrained from calling a victory after prices rose in April, with an economic recession damping the nation’s outlook.
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Consumer prices rose in Japan for the first time since 2008 last month after global energy and food costs climbed and retailers suffered product shortages in the aftermath of the nation’s earthquake and tsunami.
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Quake-zone banks extend loans to spur local rebuilding and head off an exodus of people and businesses from areas near the damaged nuclear reactors
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Japanese large manufacturers’ business confidence fell after the nation’s strongest earthquake on record devastated the northeast region on March 11.
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Japan aims to compile a package to fund the rebuilding effort after its strongest earthquake on record, a step that may worsen the challenge of reining in the world’s biggest public debt.
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Japan aims to compile a package to fund the rebuilding effort after its strongest earthquake on record, a step that may worsen the challenge of reining in the world’s biggest public debt.
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