Japan: The Bull Market Almost No One Loves + MORE

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The Tokyo market is up nearly 40% over the last six months. This is the strongest bull market in the developed world right now. Yet most American investors are missing it entirely.
Don’t be one of them. This is likely the beginning of a major bull market with plenty of room to run. Let me explain why and give you three great ways to play it…

April 8 (Bloomberg) — Ward McCarthy, chief financial
economist at Jefferies LLC., discusses U.S. non-farm payrolls
which grew by only 88,000 in March. McCarthy talks with
Bloomberg’s Pimm Fox and Vonnie Quinn on Bloomberg Radio’s
“Taking Stock.”

IndexUniverse just released its March 2013 ETF Fund Flows data last week, and it’s a pretty interesting look at what investors were buying last month, as well as what their behavior says about the markets going forward.
Here are the highlights:

Investors poured more than $18 billion into U.S. ETFs in March, bringing the total to $54 billion for Q1…

Despite the recent bad news, I still expect Royal Bank of Scotland to end the year almost 50% higher than it trades at today.

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PC giant Hewlett-Packard today announced a new lineup of Moonshot servers, boasting that they offer incredible power efficiency, consuming up to 89% less energy and occupying 80% less space, which should translate into costing 77% less.
HP believes that traditional data center infrastructure is reaching a “breaking point” in terms of space, power, and cost constraints, and that its Moonshot servers can create a more sustainable approach…

They say there is safety in numbers. That may be true heading into battle, but it's not necessarily true in the investment world.
Whether it's tulips, dot-com stocks or houses, popularity can push the short-term price of assets past their true long-term value. But while bubbles can build over time, price corrections can be swift…