The Japanese stock market has had a tremendous start to the year by almost any measure. Continued efforts by the country’s central bank to stimulate growth have pushed equity valuations to multi-year highs and recent stabilization in the yen currency has bolstered foreign investors as well.
One of the overriding themes of the last several years in this market has been the devaluation in the yen that has been a tailwind for currency-hedged ETFs such as the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund (NYSE: DXJ).
This ETF tracks an index of over 300 Japanese stocks paired with short positions in the yen. In the case of DXJ, a falling yen and rising stock market provide ...
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