Stocks surged early and held up nicely in Tokyo, that is, until the start of the afternoon session and profit-taking. However, word on the street is that around 2pm pension fund buying helped recover the earlier highs — in fact, producing the seventh largest percentage gain ever for the N225 (7.7%).

*I had to remove the Clipmarks because it auto-updated the Nikkei 225 chart making it irrelevant to the day’s action. Anyway, here’s one of the day’s headlines: 日経平均は５８９円高と大幅続伸し高値引け、公的年金買い観測＝東京市場・２９日後場.