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TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged up on Friday as disappointing earnings from Fast Retailing, the world's third largest apparel retailer, offset gains made after Wall Street pushed higher. The Nikkei index finished up 0.1 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged up on Friday and remained on track for a robust weekly gain, though investors grew cautious ahead of a long holiday weekend. The Nikkei index was up 0.2 percent at 20,144.82 at the end of ... ( read original story ...)

As you can see in the chart below, the average one-week return for these stocks after they went public was 8 percent, while the MSCI Asia ex Japan Index returned just 0.2 percent in any given week. After one month, the IPO stocks were up around 17 percent ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is set to raise its economic growth forecasts but cut its rosy inflation outlook next week, sources say, reinforcing expectations it will lag well behind major global central banks in dialing back its massive stimulus ... ( read original story ...)

Peach Aviation has been reporting consistent profits and is now comfortable pondering an IPO. This 10% market share is an achievement ... Panel discussion at CAPA Osaka Kansai LCC summit in Jun-2017 Source: CAPA TV. Achieving a 10% market share over ... ( read original story ...)

Saudi Aramco’s proposed mega IPO is set to take place next year and could raise an eye-popping USD2 trillion. Stock exchanges eager for a piece of the action include Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York and London. ( read original story ...)

Daisan and Mie Bank are among competitors that are combining Hiroshi Iwama and Mitsunori Watanabe used to joke about merging their banks in central Japan. When the Bank of Japan introduced negative interest rates last year, things got serious. The two ... ( read original story ...)

OSAKA – Prosecutors plan to build a case against the former ... following negotiations with the Finance Ministry’s local bureau. ( read original story ...)

according to the Nikkei. Mt. Gox once handled 80 percent of the world's bitcoin trades but filed for bankruptcy in 2014 after losing some 850,000 bitcoins - then worth around half a billion U.S. dollars - and $28 million in cash from its Japanese bank ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 11 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average edged up on Tuesday morning, as a weaker yen supported many export-oriented stocks, while tech shares attracted buyers on the back of the strong Nasdaq performance overnight. The Nikkei rose 0.2 ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's Finance Ministry will not sell shares in Japan Post Holdings this summer as originally planned, instead opting to wait until the price recovers to a more profitable level. The next batch of shares had been slated to go on sale as early as ... ( read original story ...)

FOREX iNVESTORS NIKKEI 225 Surged Midday Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 jumped 152 points, or 0.8 percent, to 20,081 on Monday 10th of July as most Asian bourses also traded in the green to track Wall Street higher over the weekend. The index recovered from its ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Mizuho Bank is moving forward with plans to use blockchain for trade finance. The bank said Friday (July 7) that it has completed its first distributed ledger-based trade finance transaction between Australia and Japan, with data and document ... ( read original story ...)

Statistics collected by The Nikkei show that the average capital ratio for listed Japanese businesses, excluding financial companies, for 2016 rose 0.8 percentage point on the year to 40.4%. That is the highest since fiscal 1982, the first year for which ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, July 10 Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Monday morning after Wall Street gained on Friday, while the dollar strengthened against the yen on the heels of U.S. jobs data that gave investors more confidence in the strength of the U.S. economy. ( read original story ...)

Japan has endeavored to develop its capital, Tokyo, as one of the major global financial centers - circulating domestic capital and capital from abroad and invite foreign financial institutions and firms to establish businesses in Tokyo - for many decades. ( read original story ...)