crazy thing i found out about japan while researching my next video:
Japan's main index, the nikkei, is raw price weighted.
so Company X with $100B in market cap but has 10B shares means each share is worth $10.
on the other side, Company Y worth $1B but only has 10M shares outstanding will have a share price of $100B.
because of this, Company Y would have 10X the weighting in the Nikkei as Company X, DESPITE the fact that Company X is worth 100X MORE.
that's why companies you've never heard of (like advantest, a firm that makes microchip testing devices) has 14X the weighting as Toyota, who does $325 BILLION more in sales.
That's why the Nikkei just entered a technical bear market on Friday- not because Toyota is down, but because AI names like advantest are.
https://t.co/3YwMBzALKV
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