Private-equity firms completed 71 Japanese investments in the first half of this year, up from 60 in the same period the previous year, though the overall value nearly halved to $1.56 billion from $2.99 billion, according to S&P Capital IQ, a data and research provider.
In the context of the input sentence, determine the relationship between 'halved' and 'half'.
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