For Min Jeong Lee's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
With Japan's quarterly reporting period almost over, one analyst summed up the general feeling about companies' profit performance. "The results season was probably a disappointment," said Jonathan Allum, a strategist at SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Ltd. in London. It's difficult to disagree. Most firms have posted ...
It's been a bad year for the Japanese stock market. Without record purchases by the Bank of Japan, it could have been even worse. The central bank spent ¥833 billion ($7.8 billion) on exchange-traded funds tracking the country's shares last month, the biggest amount logged ...
Masaki Hojo, who built Daifuku Co. into the world's largest maker of machines for handling chip materials, is once again challenging market expectations even as he prepares to make his exit from the company. Daifuku is considering raising its earnings guidance for the medium term, ...
Japan's banner year for buyouts is just the start of a bigger boom in the market, says the fund responsible for more than four-fifths of private equity deals in the country by value in 2017. The year won't be a one-off, says Yuji Sugimoto, the ...
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is worried about Japan going dark. Tsuyoshi Otsuka, global head of equity market strategy for the bourse, is trying to persuade regulators to see the increasing use of private venues known as dark pools as a threat to stability. He estimates ...
Bryan Goh says there's no clear reason why Japanese stocks suddenly started falling after a turbocharged rally sent them to their highest in a quarter century. What the chief investment officer of Bordier & Cie in Singapore will say is that volatility was so low ...
It calls itself a steel maker, but don't be misled by the name. Japan Steel Works Ltd. is no longer just the old-world metals firm that it started life as more than a century ago. These days, the Tokyo-based company is more a technology play, ...
The record rally on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is so powerful that one of the most prominent buyers is sitting on the sidelines. The Bank of Japan, which props up the equity market by investing in exchange-traded funds, has dramatically reduced its buying in October. ...
Asatsu-DK Inc.'s chief executive officer said he is determined to sever an alliance with top stockholder WPP PLC, seven months after the world's largest advertising agency called on share owners to vote him out. CEO and President Shinichi Ueno said in an interview that the ...
In the two weeks before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election, foreign investors using the futures market — which are often hedge funds — suddenly turned hugely positive on Japanese shares. Foreigners bought a net ¥2.1 trillion ($19 billion) of Japanese stock futures ...
