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Published in TZ Latest News 27 October, 2016 by The TZ Newswire Staff

AFLAC Gets a Boost From Japan Even as U.S. Sales Growth Sags

It doesn’t occur to many investors in the U.S. that some businesses have considerable international operations. One great example is AFLAC (NYSE: AFL), which actually offers more of its insurance-based products in the Japanese market than it does domestically. That has been a problem when the U.S. dollar is strong, but recently, the yen has strengthened, and coming into Thursday’s third-quarter financial report, Aflac investors fully expect that the company would finally reap the rewards of currency exposure.

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