Tag: banking

Rakuten (RKUNY) is a well-diversified conglomerate with tentacles throughout Japan that has plenty of running room for international expansion. Many of you may not have heard of Rakuten but I ... ( read original story ...)

Many traders in Japan had a tough first day back from a national holiday on Monday, arriving at their desks to find speculative net long positions in the yen heading towards a record high and the ... ( read original story ...)

Two recent events -- Yahoo Japan's ousting of Askul's CEO and three independent directors, and H.I.S.'s unfolding hostile tender offer for Unizo Holdings -- should prompt corporate Japan to ... ( read original story ...)

Ultralow interest rates are making it a miserable year for Japanese banks, with many stocks hitting historic lows. The bad news is that things can still get worse. For Chiba Bank, in particular, the ... ( read original story ...)

the highest since the IPO. The stock is up 32% since trading began, giving the company a market value of about $369 million. Hashimoto is seeking to tap into global demand for Japanese media ... ( read original story ...)

"China has always played an active role in regional economic integration, which is why China could act as a mediator to help Japan and South Korea reach a compromise," Chen Youjun, a senior ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO — Japan's exports fell for the eighth straight month in July as worries continued about President Donald Trump's trade policies denting Asian economic growth. Ministry of Finance data released ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's politically sensitive trade surplus with the United States grew more than 15 percent in July, data showed Monday, as negotiators from the two economic powerhouses prepare to restart talks over ... ( read original story ...)

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TOKYO -- Japan will tighten control over foreign investments ... focusing on the purchase of shares that carry voting rights, Nikkei learned Saturday. The move mirrors greater restrictions in ... ( read original story ...)

United Airlines continues to be the largest U.S. airline to Tokyo with more nonstop flights than any other U.S. carrier New Haneda service tickets go on sale Saturday, Aug. 17 New Haneda flights ... ( read original story ...)

But beneath the ferns and layers of sediment is another much more complex story: Japanese, or Nikkei, settlers who made a home in the wilderness and then, suddenly, vanished. For some time, Capilano ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japanese real estate company Unizo Holdings ... capitalization of 123 billion yen ($1.16 billion). Following the Nikkei report, Unizo announced on Friday morning that it is "in talks ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tokai Fuji Brokerage says that a new Chinese artificial intelligence company should be able to generate over 100 million in revenue by the end of next year and go public ... ( read original story ...)

The Finance Ministry will publish trade data at 8:50 ... The stubbornly low inflation and rising economic risks will keep the Bank of Japan under pressure to ease further. In July the BOJ held off on ... ( read original story ...)

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s 10-year bond yield slipped to its lowest since July 2016, intensifying scrutiny over the central bank’s yield-curve control policy amid a global debt rally. New Zealand’s ... ( read original story ...)