UNLUCKY BOJ Japan's markets appear to be girding themselves for bad news. The Nikkei 225 index is down by around a sixth from its autumn 2021 peak, when the benchmark had reached its highest point since 1991 - then the country's debt-fuelled property and stock market bubble was just starting to lose serious amounts of air.

LAURA SUTER, AJ BELL

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