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Wouldn't the money pulled out of Japanese markets be invested in other markets?

• chailatte 16y ago
  It will most likely be in currencies (look at the strong Yen) and metals (gold/silver), not in equities.
• anigbrowl 16y ago
  Many Japanese investors will be pulling out of other countries' markets, by necessity. Of course this is too complex to be summed up in a few sentences, but obviously demand patterns will undergo a major shift.
• tomkarlo 16y ago
  Not necessarily. For every dollar being pulled out there also a lot of lost value due to the declining prices. Many investors follow a "basket" strategy where if one market goes down they will allocate more money to buying there and pull it out of other areas such as private investments. This _has_ been seen in prior US public market downturns - if a pension fund is allocating 90% to public market investments and 10% to private investments, and the public market drops 33%, their fund is now split 60/10 instead of 90/10. So to rebalance back to 90/10, they'll need to liquidate 33% of their private investment allocation and move it to public investments. (This is an oversimplification but you get the idea.)