A warning of things to come? Overseas investors sold more than 2 trillion yen ($18.8 billion) of Japanese stocks and bonds last week and the yen jumped as a cronyism scandal surrounding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe casts doubt on his ability to win a ruling party leadership election in September. Abe’s economic policy has held down the yen, suppressed bond yields and boosted stocks. “Japan’s reflationary policy that has been well received is linked with the prime minister’s name as Abenomics, so a market reaction would be inevitable” if he steps down, said Daisuke Karakama, chief market economist at Mizuho Bank Ltd.
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