Re: Japan's Insurance Companies

On Mar 13, 10:59 pm, Robert Cohen <robtco...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 13, 3:35 pm, ausound <auso...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charlie Perrin <nikve...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:m8jpn61749957ue7cojduuuh9ja8nqto00@xxxxxxx:

On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:30:40 -0800 (PST), Robert Cohen wrote:

They apparently do not re-insure which is unlike U.S. based insurors

AFLAC is going to take a hit on this one as they're a US-based insuror
that writes most of its business in Japan.

so the aflac duck
is a cooked goose?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-14/asian-stocks-slump-on-japan-...

Apparently many Japanese companies have not been allowed to be traded

Mitsui Bank, had been hovering around $6 (I think) apparently hasn't
traded

Attn Anybody in Our N.G., Please post lists and perhaps last
Thursday's & Monday (today) quotes of all Japanese companies

One could play 'em as shorts and/ or "buying opportunities"

Well, I presume every player in the world is doing such, and so can i

But, hell, there are so many choices including

banks, uraniums, electric futilities, constructions, automobiles

Take autos

There is going to be a tremendous demand for new, and for parts
for salvageable/flooded, I suppose

Building material would seem to me as a "safe" long

What home despots and lows are there over there?

ALLL/many commodities would seem as "safe" TO ME

REPORTEDLY, an entire train of people and an ocean liner are
APPARENTLY gone/disappeared,

Capitalism is not pretty, and I am morally a kind of low life for
realizing such and "playing"
weaknesses/opportunities, but what else is new

excellent article imho

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576198210987163764.html

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