On March 22nd, Japan’s largest union group, Rengo, announced that Japanese firms have agreed to raise salary by 5.25% this year. This is the biggest raise the country had seen since 2013. Given that Personal Consumption constituted 55% of Japan’s GDP, the pay raise is deemed to be positive for the economy and stock market as well. Source
Correlation Between Disposable Income and Nikkei 225 Attached is the monthly chart comparing the performance of Nikkei 225 (in blue) with the 12-Months Average of Japan’s Disposable Personal Income since 1996. Their correlation explained the impact having higher disposable income had on the stock prices.
Since its bottom in December 2023, the 12-Month Average Disposable Personal Income had been rising. Market should expect this to rise further with the announcement of higher salary by the union group
On a short-term basis, Nikkei 225 had broken above the Symmetrical Triangle formation it’s been in since April. Based on Classical Technical Analysis technique, we can set the target level for such formation at 42,700 and the cut-loss level at below the triangle formation which is at 37,900 at the moment.
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