Japan’s Equity Markets Price In a Takaichi Supermajority as Final Pre-Election Polls Confirm LDP Dominance
A Nikkei poll published Thursday projects that Prime Minister Takaichi’s LDP-JIP coalition will capture more than 300 of the 465 lower house seats in Sunday’s election, with some estimates extending toward the 310-seat supermajority threshold. The poll confirms what equity markets have been pricing since parliament was dissolved on January 23: a decisive mandate that…