Here’s a great article from Reuters that I missed in all the excitement over the RBNZ. I only saw it ’cause of a head’s up from the good guys over at LiveSquawk (ps. I rarely can spell LiveSquawk properly on the first go … but I’m 2 for 2 in this post!).

Japan bears bet on Abe victory followed by yen disaster (great headline)

  • An election sweep for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe this weekend looks like a safe bet, but some are betting that the consequences for Japan could be calamitous – a collapse in the yen and uncontrolled inflation.

Some doom and gloom for ya all!

If you are following the Japanese election on Sunday (yep, that soon), we should get some good indications of who has won (Abe seems a shoo-in) and by how much (that’s is the question):