BOJ bond-buying faces challenge as Japan Post slows debt sales
The day when the Bank of Japan can't find enough bonds to buy is drawing closer. State-owned Japan Post Bank Co. will probably offload about ¥10 trillion ($83 billion) of Japanese government bonds in the year started April 1, according to Bank of America Merrill ...
Panasonic Corp. has completed the biggest bond sale to Japan's institutional investors since 2011 after the electronics maker forecast its best profit in seven years. The ¥400 billion offering included 10-year notes with a yield of 0.934 percent, compared with the 0.57 percent average for ...
Chiba Bank Ltd. was rewarded for pushing ahead with the first dollar bond sale by a Japanese regional bank even as U.S. corporate borrowing costs leaped. The lender issued $300 million of notes in the U.S. currency this month at a 2.55 percent yield. That ...
Ebola raises airline bond risk, similar to SARS scare
The bond risk of ANA Holdings Inc. rose the most of any company in Japan as the spread of Ebola to two health workers in the U.S. rekindled memories of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2002 and 2003. The cost to insure ...
A little self-control can add up to big savings
An American economics columnist reports that having to spend cash out of an envelope rather than just pulling out the debit card has made her much more frugal.
Mitsubishi UFJ card unit seeks to double transactions before Olympics
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.'s credit-card unit expects to double transactions by 2020 in anticipation that Japan will become a less cash-oriented society by the time Tokyo hosts the Olympic Games that year. Mitsubishi UFJ Nicos Co. and its group companies are targeting combined card ...
Tepco bonds a safe bet now: Nomura
Nomura Holdings Inc. is urging investors buy Tokyo Electric Power Co. bonds after a report that the government plans to cap the utility's cleanup costs at the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The yield premium on Tepco's 1.155 percent notes due in 2020 ...
