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CREDIT

BUSINESS / Economy
May 20, 2015
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.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 11, 2015
Panasonic comeback seen in biggest bond sale since 2011
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.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 31, 2014
Nomura sees Chiba Bank blazing bond trail for regionals
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.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 22, 2014
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.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2014
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.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 10, 2014
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.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 17, 2013
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.

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