Record-High Nikkei’s Rise Just Getting Started on Foreign Demand

  • Some analysts project Nikkei gaining more than 10% from here
  • Solid fundamentals driving rally, Platinum Asset’s Halse says

Inside the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Feb. 22.

Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg
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The stock rally that pushed Japan’s Nikkei 225 Stock Average past a record that stood for more than three decades looks set for further advances as foreigners rush back in.

That’s the view of investors and strategists, who are also watching for a potential broadening of equities gains that may take the wider Topix index to an all-time high this year. Fund flow data indicate there’s scope for trillions of yen to return to Japan’s stock market based on figures compiled by Bloomberg.