01-08-2025
Japan Retail Traders Pile Bearish Nikkei Bets, Raising Doubts
As Japanese stocks soar to record highs, retail investors are ramping up bearish bets, highlighting lingering doubts about the rally's staying power.
The contrarian tilt, long embedded in the behavior of Japanese individual investors, is surfacing yet again. Some analysts trace the mindset back to decades of equity market underperformance driven by yen strength and deflation.
