Atlantic International Partnership Headlines:Japanese economy more important than it seems

http://atlanticinternationalpartnershipreviews.com/?p=49Even in an age of global diversification, Japan is one big economy that gets scarcely any respect from investors. Maybe that should change.
This, at least, is the contention of Peter Berezin, a managing editor of Montreal’s Bank Credit Analyst investment publication.
Berezin, who formerly worked as an economist for Goldman Sachs and the International Monetary Fund, is quite aware of Japan’s long, lamentable record of deflation and stock-market disappointments. Over the past decade, Japan’s Nikkei 225 index has lost fully 30 per cent of its value. Over this same period, Canada’s commodity-fuelled S&P/TSX index has gained 75 per cent.