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<text id=90TT0624>
<title>
Mar. 12, 1990: Business Notes:Financial Markets
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Mar. 12, 1990 Soviet Disunion
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 65
Business Notes
FINANCIAL MARKETS
Beware the Triple Whammy
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<body>
<p> During the 1980s, the Japanese spoke of the "Triple Merits"
that were driving the Tokyo stock market's extraordinary rise: a
strong yen, low interest rates and falling oil prices. Now that
the Tokyo market is on a rocky slide, investors have labeled the
culprits the Triple Demerits: a weakening yen, growing inflation
and rising interest rates. The triple whammy has sent the Nikkei
index down nearly 15% so far this year. In one session last week
the index dived 1,569 points, or 4.5%, the biggest one-day loss
since the 1987 crash. The index lurched up and down for the rest
of the week, closing down 833 points, at 34,057.56.
</p>
<p> The falloff in stock prices suggests that the Tokyo market
is newly vulnerable to financial forces beyond its borders. Most
notably, Japan is feeling the effects of higher interest rates
in West Germany, where the yield of government bonds has climbed
briskly, largely due to concerns over the cost of monetary union
with East Germany.
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