Stock investors waiting for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to figure out how to end Japan ’s latest recession got an unexpected boost from 5,689 miles away. The Topix index rallied 2.6 percent through yesterday since OPEC members decided at a meeting in Vienna on Nov. 27 to resist calls to cut oil output, sending crude tumbling. Two days into December, Japanese shares were the second-best performers among 24 developed markets tracked by Bloomberg on prospects cheaper oil will aid a nation that imports almost all its energy. As Abe prepares for parliamentary elections, the fall eases the burden on voters squeezed by falling real incomes and a higher sales tax . With Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda pumping unprecedented amounts of money into the economy in a bid to achieve 2 percent inflation, the decline takes him further from his goal and raises the possibility of further stimulus, […]