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View This Message on the Web November 20 Investors Can't Ignore a Rebounding Japan By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning In a visit to Japan in the early 1990s, U.S. President George H.W. Bush threw up over the Japanese prime minister. When President Barack Obama visited Japan last weekend, he offered an effusive bow to the Emperor Akihito. Politically, U.S.-Japanese relations have improved dramatically during that two-decade stretch. Yet investor regard for Japan has gone the opposite way. Twenty years ago – in the midst of the Japanese stock-and-real-estate bubble – U.S. and other world investors were kowtowing to Japanese investments – and banging their heads on the floor in the process. Today those same investors are much more likely to throw up in the direction of those Japanese investments. 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But the future is going to be very different, and cable companies instead will be selling an 'entertainment experience.'" Read Full Article » Investment News Briefs With our investment news briefs, Money Morning provides investors with a quick overview of the most important investing news stories from all around the world. AOL to Cut One-Third of Workforce; Geithner Rebuffs Calls for Resignation; Oil Follows Equities' Decline; Leading Indicators Hit Two-Year High; U.S. Making Plans for New Iran Sanctions; DirecTV Won't Rule Out Possible Takeover; AOL LLC Chief Executive Tim Armstrong told employees yesterday (Thursday) that he will ask for 2,500 volunteers, about one-third of the company's workforce, to be laid off, The Wall Street Journal reported. The voluntary layoff program, which is part of an effort to trim some $300 million in annual costs, will begin on Dec. 4 and run through Dec. 11. 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The decline followed a similar slide in U.S. equities that drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 93.87 points, or 0.9%, and the Standard & Poor's 500 Index down 14.9 points, or 1.34%. The Conference Board's Leading Economic Index climbed 0.3% to 103.8 in October, the highest level since September 2007. "The data indicate that economic recovery is finally setting in. We can expect slow growth through the first half of 2010," Conference Board economist Ken Goldstein said in a statement. U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday (Thursday) said that world powers could deploy new sanctions against Iran "within weeks," as the Middle Eastern nation had failed to embrace a deal that would ship roughly 75% of its low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for conversion into a power source. "Iran has taken weeks now and has not shown its willingness to say yes to this proposal," the president said at a joint news conference with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Seoul. 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