Pal Group Holdings, which operates a 300yen shop chain, keeps revising its highest share prices. Eanings forecast was upward revised by 30%, and further growth is expected. While Norway soverein wealth fund has just reported $164bn loss, its investment ability is still great!!

Doshisha (7483), a manufacturer and a wholesaler of original products in various fields including home appliances, clothing, and foods, boosted over 7% today thanks to good eanings announcement.

Value stocks performed pretty good in 2022 and remain strong this year too! TOPIX 500 value index has reached the highest levels since 2007! A lot of companies' fiscal year end is approaching, and expectations for the value stocks with high dividend yield are even higher?

Mercuria HDs, an AM company sponsored by major banks and a trading firm, revised 52week high today! Share prices have finally rose to December 2021 levels when the follow on offering triggerd a sharp fall in stock prices was released. Looking forward to earnings announcement.

An US preferred stock ETF(2866), is not it perfect for NISA? Investable below 1,000yen, and expected dividend yield would be 5%. Top holdings are the preferred stocks issued by US major financial institutions suc as Wells Fargo and JP Morgan. More attractive than US$ deposit?

It has been two weeks since the idea was posted, and all the ten picked up shares are gaining! Just amazing!! Two top performers boosted double digit percentages, and the best gainer Furuhashi EPO, a biomass power generation operator, soared by 20%!

BOJ decided to maintain its ultra easing policy, and Japan's financial markets fluctuated. US dollar rose to 131yen levels, and NIKKET225 soared by 2.5% on the BOJ's announcement. Will market expectations for policy changes soon be rekindled before the next policy meeting?

Global steel shares have been boosting on expectations of China's reopening. Nippon Steel Corporation is also following this trend, and the shares have just marked the record high during the last five years. Outstanding rise among competetors reflects its bargaining power?

BTC has been recovering, and the price has surged by 15% since the 2022 end. Factors behind the rise would be the expectation for FRB's pivot and cooling US dollar in thereaction to CPI's peaking out. Low correlation with financial instruments attracted investors in the past...

Kyoritsu M has sored by 40% during a year!! Beijing Olympic games were held, and Japan's society had faced the COVID 6th wave at the timing of the idea pitch. The shares marked record high in October 2022. Reopening of China brings the opportunity to seek the higher prices?

WORKMAN has been soring since late December!! December sales on all stores and existing stores grew by 14% and 8% YOY accordingly with a complete turnaround from Nobember's slump . Thanks to the correction of yen's depreciation, the shares seem to be off to a good start in 2023.

Thanks to strong yen led by BOJ, Seria, a major one dollar retairor, has been soaring!! Although share prices had skyrocketed under the first coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the prices kept declining during the last two years. Strong yen is expected to control increasing COGS.