15 Quotes by Tetsuya Ishijima

Selling Old Japan (stocks) to buy New Japan (stocks) is necessary for the economy to put forward ongoing structural reforms, and the change in the Nikkei will encourage this.

People who bet on the Dow's rally unloaded what they had gotten.

Large-cap information technology shares found few buyers. That's because they most reflect the nervousness in the New York markets.

People are getting nervous about U.S. data. It is a lesson learnt from the New York market's tumble following surprisingly strong price data.

The prospect of an aggressive U.S. interest rate hike has made high-tech stocks look like a safer haven.

There is no such thing as Chiyoda shock because we've somewhat expected a rise in company failures as a result of Japanese banks' bad-loan write-offs.

I see this as buying by speculative dealers, or short-term punters. It's fallen to levels low enough for dealers to toy around with. But we're keeping away from this one.

A full-fledged recovery pretty much depends on the U.S. market. Japan's high-tech shares rose on the back of their U.S. counterparts last year, so their vulnerability to losses on the Nasdaq is inevitable.

Companies are raising their earnings expectations and we've been hearing news that capital expenditure is on the rise as well.