FOCUS: Abe's departure with mixed economic results to test market confidence

Seven years ago on Wall Street, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged investors to "buy my Abenomics," as he promised to chart a growth path for deflation-mired Japan.Fast forward to 2020, Abe, the longest-serving Japanese prime minister, is quitting due to ill health, leaving an economy that is smaller -- badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic -- and with more debt than when he returned to power in 2012.Whoever gets what some lawmakers call "the short straw" in the ruling party's leadership race in mid-September, the next prime minister may face a hard time trying to gain market confidence in pos…READ FULL ARTICLE