Tag: nikkei

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The era of super-cheap money is ending, and stocks' remarkable run to new highs and bond yields' refusal to shoot higher suggest world markets are taking this seismic monetary policy shift in their stride. Yet while attention is ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Wednesday as banks and financial shares tracked their U.S. counterparts higher, shrugging off another North Korean missile launch. The Nikkei was up 0.4 percent at 22,576.86 points at the end ... ( read original story ...)

Central bankers say the success of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is just a bubble. But it keeps them awake at night, because these private currencies threaten their control of the banking system and money supply, that could undermine the monetary ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's biggest brokerage and investment bank said in a statement it would initially invest about 100 billion yen (670 million pounds) in the new business. It has yet to identify any specific investment targets. Nomura last made a fresh private equity ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan board member Goushi Kataoka said the central bank must expand stimulus further to achieve its price target early, so that prolonged monetary easing does not hurt the country's banking system, the Sankei newspaper reported on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

Japanese instant-noodle legend Nissin Foods Holdings – the maker of Cup Noodles and owner of big selling and well-known brands such as Demae Itcho – plans to spin off its China and Hong Kong business in an initial public offering (IPO) next month ... ( read original story ...)

Does the Japanese experience offer lessons for long-term investors? Or is Japan a freak case, an anomaly, an extreme crash that is the exception to the “buy and hold” rule? Certainly, the Japanese crash has been extreme. Typically, stocks recover after ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Consumer Goods Forum Creates First Japan Local Group Committed to Addressing Today's Regional Sustainability Challenges; Implementation of Sustainability Resolutions Key Priority The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF ... ( read original story ...)

Central bankers say the success of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is just a bubble. But it keeps them awake at night because these private currencies threaten their control of the banking system and money supply, which could undermine the monetary ... ( read original story ...)

China , Japan and South Korea account for a quarter of the world's output of goods and services. Their combined trade surplus is currently running at an annual rate of $400 billion. They can recycle that trade income to finance, with interest, most of ... ( read original story ...)

In many cases, Japanese companies with high profit gains also registered large sales increases. This helped the Nikkei average rise to a 26-year high. Sony reported a twentysevenfold year-on-year jump in net profit in the July-September period, the highest ... ( read original story ...)

is planning a $300-million IPO this year with a target to list in the first quarter of 2018. Vietnam wants Japanese and Osaka firms to expand their operations in the country, especially in farm produce processing and consumption, the support industry ... ( read original story ...)

Line, which will be the first Japanese company to list new shares in the US since 2000, had already increased the suggested price range for its IPO after stronger-than-expected demand. On the surface, the joint listing could not have come at a worse time. ( read original story ...)

The U.S. airlines' departure is a warning flag to Japan, which still aims to be the gateway to the Asia-Pacific region. Nikkei staff writer Kim Jaewon in Seoul contributed to this story. ( read original story ...)

As a Japanese executive, who worked 23 years for U.S investment bank Goldman Sachs, I have always been puzzled by how few Japanese rise to the top ranks of foreign firms in Japan. In posts where dealing directly with Japanese clients is the key to success ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will team with the U.K. to develop an air-to-air missile, Tokyo's first defense equipment project with a partner other than the U.S. and a potential turning point for the country's arms export policy. The planned weapon will incorporate a ... ( read original story ...)