Category: FINANCE

offering such encouragement as that the TSE is one of the highly probable IPO venues to sell shares in Aramco. Only six foreign companies are currently listed on the TSE, a drop from more than 100 during Japan’s late-1980s asset-inflated economic growth ... ( read original story ...)

The players faced off in a round robin at the Japanese go organization Nihon Ki-in's Osaka headquarters on March 21-23, with the cooperation of Nikkei Inc. South Korea's Park Jeong-hwan came out the winner, prevailing in all three matches. "The toughest ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Despite a tightening job market that is putting upward pressure on wages, growth in Japan remains stubbornly slow as a labor shortage constrains business activity while part-timers and temps hesitate to loosen their purse strings. The unemployment ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese Yen has been on somewhat of a rollercoaster ever since Presidential Elections in the United States. After a rather consistent run of weakness against the Greenback in the month and a half after the start of the ‘Trump Bump’, USD/JPY ... ( read original story ...)

10:33a APAC Closing Prices: #ASX 5864.90 -0.53% #NIKKEI 18909.26 -0.81% #HSI 24111.5.. 10:13a Toshiba offered $17.9 billion for chip unit by Silver Lake and Broadcom: Nikk.. 09:59a Asian Market Update: #Nikkei drops to over 7-week closing low as investors lo. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO The new head of Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) said it is "actively studying" an acquisition of a U.S. bank, as part of efforts to seek a reliable dollar funding source for future growth. Securing cheap, stable dollar funding has been a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 31 Japan Post Bank Co Ltd, the country's biggest bank by assets, on Friday said it will seek regulatory permission to sell unsecured retail loans, as it hunts for higher returns in an environment of ultra-low interest rates. The bank aims to ... ( read original story ...)

-- Japan Automobile Dealers Association to release new motor vehicle sales figures for fiscal 2016 and for March on car-model basis. -- Cabinet Office to release survey on consumer trends for March. -- Japan Automobile Importers Association to release ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, March 30 Japan's Nikkei share average edged down on Thursday morning pressured by a pause in the weak yen trend, while mining shares firmed on gains in oil prices. The Nikkei dropped 0.2 percent to 19,175.10 in midmorning trade. The dollar slumped ... ( read original story ...)

only provides financial support for the construction of facilities such as schools, libraries, hospitals and nursing homes, and only in areas outside Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya. The government will revise the rules to enable it to finance — starting in ... ( read original story ...)

TORONTO, ON--(Marketwired - March 29, 2017) - Tokyo Smoke is excited to announce a new Toronto flagship store arriving on Queen Street West in early summer 2017, just two years after opening its first retail and coffee shop on Adelaide Street, followed by ... ( read original story ...)

DUBAI Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.T ... Shinzo Abe this month asked Saudi Arabia's King Salman to support a listing of Aramco's shares in Tokyo. Other markets, including New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Toronto, are also vying for ... ( read original story ...)

The government sold about $12 billion worth of shares in Japan Post, Japan Post Bank Co (7182.T), and Japan Post Insurance Co (7181.T) in the IPO, which was the largest privatization of a Japanese state-owned firm since that of Nippon Telegraph and ... ( read original story ...)

ULAANBAATAR Japan has committed $850 million in loans to Mongolia as part of a bailout to help rescue the country's struggling economy, Mongolia's finance ministry said on Wednesday. Mongolia, landlocked between China and Russia, agreed to a $5.5 billion ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO Bank of Japan board member Takehiro Sato said labour market reform and other measures to boost Japan's growth potential must accompany monetary easing to raise the country's low long-term inflation expectations. Prolonged economic stagnation has ... ( read original story ...)

BDO Unibank has teamed up with Shinkin Central Bank (SCB), the central financial institution in Japan for the cooperative regional financial institutions known as “shinkin” banks, to assist Japanese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) seeking business ... ( read original story ...)