Nomura I-View Index Up Slightly Over September

The Nomura Individual Investor Market View Index (Nomura I-View Index) saw a slight month-on-month increase in the number of investors who expect the Nikkei to go up over the next three months, but a decrease in the number who expect a large increase of 2,000 points or more.

Rise in Nomura I-View index

The index went up 0.6 points from 52.4 to 53.0 in October, while the proportion of respondents expecting a rise of more than 2,000 dropped 2.4 points and the proportion expecting a rise of 2,000 dropped 2.2 percent. Correspondingly, the percentage of people expecting a rise of about 1,000 points went up 4.9 percent.