Global investors losing confidence in Abenomics
Foreign investment in Japanese stocks down 94 per cent this year after record figure last year
Tokyo
FOREIGN investors have had just about enough of Abenomics.
After pumping record amounts of cash into Japanese shares last year, they've hardly added to holdings in 2014. Inflows are down 94 per cent this year to 898 billion yen (S$9.85 billion), on pace for the smallest annual amount since the 2008 global financial crisis. The month of April 2013 alone registered almost three times as much foreign investment in the stock market as all of 2014.
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