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- Citigroup Eyes Selling Japan Consumer Unit: Paper
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc (C) is considering selling its Japanese consumer finance company CFJ KK or cutting the unit's business significantly as part of its plans to shed assets, Japanese daily Nikkei reported on Sunday. The biggest U.S. bank is aiming to...
- News items 2008-05-10
- Citigroup Eyes Selling Japan Consumer Unit
- TOKYO (Reuters UK) - Citigroup (C) is considering selling its Japanese consumer finance company CFJ KK or cutting the unit's business significantly as part of its plans to shed assets, Japanese daily Nikkei reported on Sunday. The biggest U.S. bank is aiming to unload $400 billion...
- News items 2008-05-10
- Sony 07/08 Profit to Quintuple But Miss Target: Report
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's operating profit likely jumped more than fivefold to 380 billion yen ($3.6 billion) on strong sales of digital cameras in the year just ended, but it missed the company's forecast by 30 billion yen, the...
- News items 2008-05-01
- nikkei Down 0.6 Percent Ahead of Earnings
- By Aiko Hayashi TOKYO (Reuters UK) - Japan's Nikkei stock average slipped 0.6 percent on Thursday, as investors sold recent gainers such as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and other bank shares ahead of a wave of earnings announcements and national holidays. Kirin Holdings Co, a brewer,...
- News items 2008-05-01
- nikkei Hits Two-month Closing High, Fed Awaited
- By Aiko Hayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei stock average rose 0.2 percent to hit a two-month closing high on Monday, led higher by financial players such as top lender Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, which jumped 10 percent on improving investor ...
- News items 2008-04-28
- Nomura Caught in Insider Trading Scandal
- By Emi Emoto and Aiko Hayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Nomura Holdings , Japan's largest brokerage house, said on Tuesday that it had fired an employee at the centre of an insider trading ring and warned the fallout could harm its business. The insider...
- News items 2008-04-22
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- A Cross Sectional Analysis Of The Excess Comovement Of Stock Returns
- In the presence of limits to arbitrage, cross-sectional variation in periodic investor demand should be related to the degree of comovement of returns. The author exploits the unusual weighting system of the Nikkei 225 index in Japan to identify cross-sectional variation in periodic demand for index stocks. Relative to their...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Toshiba Q4 Falls 95 Percent on Weak Chips
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp posted on Friday a better-than-expected 95 percent drop in quarterly profit as flash memory chip prices tumbled. The world's No. 2 maker of NAND flash memory chips behind South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd...
- News items 2008-04-24
- Honda Accused of Not Stating $1.3 Billion Income: Report
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's tax bureau has accused Honda Motor Co Ltd of failing to report a total of about 140 billion yen ($1.3 billion) in domestic income over two years to March 2006, the Nikkei business daily said on Friday, quoting sources...
- News items 2008-04-24
- Nintendo Sees Annual Profit Up on Wii Boom
- OSAKA (Reuters UK) - Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday annual profit more than doubled, and it forecast another 9 percent growth this year on red-hot demand for its Wii and DS game machines in the United States and Europe. Nintendo's wildly popular Super...
- News items 2008-04-24
- JAL Doubles Estimates on Business Travel Boom
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Airlines Corp said on Friday it had roughly doubled its 2007/08 profit estimates to above market expectations, thanks to strong business travel demand on its international routes. The carrier, Asia's biggest by revenue, reported net losses ...
- News items 2008-05-02
- Carlyle buys control of Japanese LCD glass maker NH Techno Glass
- PE firm Carlyle Group is buying a JPY58.1bn (USD560m) majority stake in NH Techno Glass, an LCD joint venture between Japanese glass makers Nippon Sheet Glass and Hoya. Under the deal, Nippon Sheet will sell its 50% stake in the venture to a vehicle created by Carlyle for JPY40.6bn...
- News items 2008-05-09
- Canon Says to Invest $575 Mln in New U.S. Plant
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Canon Inc, a leading printer and copier maker, said on Friday it would invest 60 billion yen ($575 million) to build a new toner cartridge plant in the United States, prompting its shares to rise as much as 4.4...
- News items 2008-05-01
- BNET Daily Dispatch: Ford, Avaya, Toshiba, and U.S. Housing
- Ford plans to sell Volvo and BMW may be the buyer, according to Swedish newspaper Goteborgs Posten. The paper reports that BMW is in the process of studying the implications of a possible deal, and the Financial Times also reported that BMW is talks to buy the brand....
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- Japan's Matsushita, Sanyo Reportedly in Tie-up Plan
- TOKYO (Reuters) - Panasonic maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co and Sanyo Electric Co may tie up in the first reorganisation move among Japan's top electronics makers, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Monday, but the two companies quickly rejected the...
- News items 2008-04-27
- Nikon Profit Up, Strong Yen Hits Outlook
- By Mayumi Negishi TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikon Corp said its quarterly operating profit rose 48 percent thanks to sales of advanced cameras and chip-making equipment, but it predicted a fall in operating profit this year. A strong yen is taking a...
- News items 2008-05-12
- FTSE Gains as Oil Shares Rise
- By Michael Taylor LONDON (Reuters UK) - The FTSE edged up on Monday as heavyweight oil stocks rose on high U.S crude prices, while banking giant HSBC (HSBA) gained after its update pleased investors. At 9:57 a.m., the FTSE 100 was up 42.2 points, or...
- News items 2008-05-12
- Takeda Sees Big Profit Slump on Millennium Costs
- By Edwina Gibbs TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd posted a 77 percent drop in quarterly operating profit as it spent to boost its pipeline, and forecast a sharp fall in annual income linked to the costs of its $8...
- News items 2008-05-09
- Global Stocks Rise as Yen Eases
- By Louise Heavens SINGAPORE (Reuters UK) - Stocks recovered earlier losses on Monday, with Japan rebounding as the yen fell against the dollar and boosted exporters, and Sydney rising 1 percent on optimism over a potential bank takeover. But European markets were on course for a...
- News items 2008-05-11
- Toshiba Eyes Doubled Operating Profit in 3 Years
- By Mayumi Negishi TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese electronics maker Toshiba Corp said it expects its operating profit to more than double over the next three years as it cuts costs, ramps up capacity for its semiconductors and seeks nuclear plant orders. Toshiba,...
- News items 2008-05-08
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