17-Aug-2026
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Asian stocks decline following Wall Street sell-off as Middle East hopes fade; oil tops $85
Seeking Alpha News (Tue, 18-Aug 1:20 AM ET)
Yen edges higher as traders push back Fed rate hike bets
Seeking Alpha News (Mon, 17-Aug 2:38 AM ET)
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Japan's Q2 GDP softens to 0.3%; industrial output rebounds to 1.9%
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Asian stocks trade mixed as U.S. inflation cools; Strait of Hormuz risks weigh
Seeking Alpha News (Fri, 14-Aug 1:42 AM ET)
Yen hovers near 160 level; Goldman says Japan has enough cash to intervene again
Seeking Alpha News (Thu, 13-Aug 6:31 AM ET)
Japan's July producer prices rise 7.2% Y/Y, slightly below expectations
Seeking Alpha News (Thu, 13-Aug 2:46 AM ET)
Asian stock markets diverge following Wall Street rally; KOSPI outperforms
Seeking Alpha News (Thu, 13-Aug 2:40 AM ET)
The iShares MSCI Japan Index Fund seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance before fees and expenses of publicly traded securities in the Japanese market as measured by the MSCI Japan Index.
iShares MSCI Japan ETF trades on the ARCA stock market under the symbol EWJ.
As of August 17, 2026, EWJ stock price declined to $98.17 with 2,526,507 million shares trading.
EWJ has a beta of 1.07, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. EWJ has a correlation of 0.41 to the broad based SPY ETF.
EWJ has a market cap of $23.13 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, EWJ traded as high as $98.79 and as low as $57.20.
EWJ has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +26.9% while the SPY ETF gained +21.3%. EWJ has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +8.3% and +5.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +4.8% and +2.0%, respectively.
EWJ support price is $96.83 and resistance is $99.59 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that EWJ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.