Japan's Political Shift & The Nikkei Surge
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Hosts Justin Klein & Luke Guerrero, CFA | Wealth Managers and Investment Advisors
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🗓️ 24 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Following a historic supermajority win for Japan's governing party, the Nikkei 225 surged 5% to record highs. We will discuss the return of foreign capital to Japanese markets and the strength of the Yen.
Today's Stocks & Topics: Graco Inc. (GGG), Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PYPL), Market Wrap, Japan's Political Shift & The Nikkei Surge, Onto Innovation Inc. (ONTO), Roper Technologies, Inc. (ROP), The Commodity Industry, Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNQ), Lyft, Inc. (LYFT), Jobs Report.
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| 0:00.0 | On radio, on YouTube, streaming live on invest talk.com, and for our podcast subscribers, this is InvestTalk. Incependent Thinking, shared success. |
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| 0:27.2 | Here is KPP Financial Chief Executive Officer, Financial Advisor, Justin Klein. |
| 0:34.9 | Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to InvestTalk. This is our Monday, February 23rd, 2026 edition of Investstock. And I'm excited for this hour. There's a lot going on in markets when it comes to AI disruptions. It's pretty clear that we are in a new era. And it's going to change the |
| 0:57.3 | way that various industries operate. And that's going to create a lot of winners and a lot of |
| 1:03.7 | losers, which means you have to rethink your strategy, your allocation, both domestically |
| 1:10.1 | and globally. |
| 1:12.6 | In some ways, it's going to be inflationary. |
| 1:14.9 | In other ways, it's going to be deflationary. |
| 1:18.9 | You really have to reset. |
| 1:22.7 | You're thinking on almost every sector of the economy. |
| 1:28.4 | And that's where we are here to help you with, help navigate you through these very |
| 1:33.4 | challenging times, both economically and geopolitically. |
| 1:37.8 | We saw over the weekend violence erupt in Mexico. |
| 1:44.4 | It looks like there is going to be some action taken on Iran. |
| 1:51.4 | And all this impacts markets. |
| 1:55.8 | And so we are here to help dial in your strategy based on your risk tolerance level, your goals, |
| 2:04.2 | and the current market environment. |
| 2:06.5 | And we do that by answering your finance and investment questions so that you can get clarity |
| 2:10.5 | on the various aspects you have questions about. |
| 2:18.6 | Your plan, your strategy, it's multi-dimensional, and it's to fill in those holes. |
| 2:26.8 | We are here to help with that. |
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