Akane Otani

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1,333 appearances 33 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2017 last heard Mar 2023

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Stocks, Bond Yields Slide on Weak Economic Data · 22 Mar 2019 podcast

And because, to some extent, the gains of the first half of 2017, 2018, they really look hard to repeat at this point in the economic cycle. matched

But then again, it seems like people are a little bit jittery these days. matched

So it'll be interesting to see if that reading and the sort of soft patch that we're expected to see is going to spark another market reaction. matched

Hopefully not, but we'll have to see. matched

Thanks for having me. matched

WSJ Your Money Briefing · Stocks Rise; The Fed's on Deck · 15 Mar 2019 podcast

At least for now, I think that's how investors are reading it. matched

I mean, even though we've seen a number of somewhat downbeat economic reports, not just in the U.S., but in China, as you mentioned, and also across the Eurozone, stocks around the world have largely continued to rise. matched

And I think that's a testament to the bets that are playing out that this kind of weakness that we're starting to see is going to force the Fed and the ECB and the BOJ to matched

so on and so forth, to really dial back their plans to raise interest rates in the future. matched

And that, of course, is accommodative for stocks. matched

I mean, one of the big problems that investors were grappling with last year was this thought that the economy was actually potentially going to overheat, which would force the Fed to accelerate its rate increases. matched

But now that that problem is largely off the table, I think investors are, if anything, somewhat relieved. matched

Well, I think it's really a continuation of this trend that we've seen emerge over the last month or so, where tech stocks, not just in the U.S., but really around the world, have been leading the market's rebound. matched

And it's sort of an interesting reversion, I guess, back to the mean, because, again, we saw this happening at the beginning of last year, matched

And yet, investors seem to be a little bit more at ease with what's happening nowadays. matched

I think because there's a sense that since a lot of these fast-growing companies were so sold off in the final months of 2018, what's happening now seems a bit more sustainable in many people's eyes compared to what we were seeing last year. matched

Very much so. matched

We saw the British pound immediately start rallying after the results of that vote came in Thursday, and the pound looked set to close the week higher against the dollar as well. matched

So we really have seen, I guess, another one of the fears that investors were grappling with matched

somewhat taken off the table for now. matched

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