Quote from 22andrich:
That is just flat out wrong. Nikkei 225 is much more correlated with US 10-year note yields than ES.
Japanese banks are packing real savings and not a bunch of trashed asset-backed securities. They have among the lowest inflation of the industrialized countries. Their econ numbers have been upside surprising with increasing frequency over the past few months. They are extremely energy efficient.
Good luck, schmucks.
Their inflation is relatively low is because their economy overall is in the shitter and will be there for the foreseeable future. Speaking of inflation - out of the last 6 Tokyo Core CPY y/y inflation numbers 4 came in as surprise to the upside, 1 to downside and 1 as expected. The June figure was 1.3% vs 1.1% expected. The trend is up, not down.
Good luck to you though (I don't need any since I have no actual position here).