Sunday, Jun 24, 2007

Mummy wheres my breakfast ? sorry honey just got to cover my yen position get your own

SMH: Housewives show a yen for trading to net riches

So far this year they have opened 600,000 accounts at brokerages that lend money at the low rate for currency bets, according to Tokyo's Yano Research Institute Japanese assets in foreign markets had risen 20 trillion yen ($190 billion) in the past two years

Posted by out of control speculators @ 12:11 PM (161 views) Add Comment

3 Comments

1. royston said...

When this baby blows - and it will - it's going to be very ugly!

Sunday, June 24, 2007 10:40PM Report Comment
 

2. japanese uncle said...

This precisely reminds me of the last days of the equity/property dual bubble in Japan circa 1990. Nikkei was reporting a lot about the housewives and coeds dipping their toes in the stock market. The market collapsed soon after.

Housewives and coeds are the end signal of any stupid boom, just like shoeshine boys starting share investment alarmed Joe Kennedy (father of JFK) who immediately start short-selling in an anticipation of falling market.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 11:43PM Report Comment
 

3. sold 2 rent 1 said...

JU,

spot on.
All manias end this way.

The next mania, which may turn out to be the biggest in history, will kick off in earnest in the next year or so.

And the mania is........GOLD.

Monday, June 25, 2007 12:41AM Report Comment
 

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