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November 20


Investors Can’t Ignore a Rebounding Japan

By Martin Hutchinson
Contributing Editor
Money Morning

In a visit to Japan in the early 1990s, U.S. President George H.W. Bush threw up over the Japanese prime minister. When President Barack Obama visited Japan last weekend, he offered an effusive bow to the Emperor Akihito.

Politically, U.S.-Japanese relations have improved dramatically during that two-decade stretch.

Yet investor regard for Japan has gone the opposite way. Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Japanese stock-and-real-estate bubble – U.S. and other world investors were kowtowing to Japanese investments – and banging their heads on the floor in the process.

Today those same investors are much more likely to throw up in the direction of those Japanese investments.

The up-chuck response to Japanese investment is a reasonable one, given that country’s stock-market performance since 1990. After all, the Nikkei 225 share index is down more than 75% from its January 1990 peak. If my broker had locked me into Japanese stocks for the last 20 years I’d …




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Hot Stocks: Comcast Looks to Expand Its Brand with Potential NBC Universal Takeover

By Bob Blandeburgo
Associate Editor
Money Morning

With a possible buyout of General Electric Co.’s (NYSE: GE) NBC Universal Inc. in the works, Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is adapting to a changing technological landscape.

Comcast, the United States’ largest cable television provider, is hoping to avoid becoming the next newspaper or record company by expanding its role from an entertainment medium to a content provider.

“The world of cable delivery is about to change,” Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR) analyst James McQuivey told the Los Angeles Times. “Cable companies for …




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