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Nomura Holdings Inc. surged the most in more than two years in Tokyo trading after it announced a surprise ¥150 billion ($1.4 billion) share buyback along with plans to reduce its chairman's role to bolster governance. Just days before its annual shareholders meeting, Japan's biggest ...

Nissan will accept Renault’s request for more representation on the Japanese carmaker’s new board committees in a bid to secure approval for its governance reform proposal, sources say.

Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Wednesday told Walmart Inc. shareholders and top executives that the world's largest retailer should boost the "starvation"-level wages it pays its workers and stop fueling income inequality. Speaking at Walmart's shareholder meeting, the U.S. senator said: "Despite the ...

Japan Post Holdings Co. has acquired an equity stake of 1.91 percent in Daiwa Securities Group Inc. Daiwa revealed the deal in a notice Monday for its upcoming general shareholders meeting. According to the notice, Japan Post Holdings had 30 million shares in Daiwa as of ...

Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa apologized for causing trouble over Ghosn’s case, which he described as “an unheard of incident” in the history of the automaker.

Publicly traded firms' purchases of their own shares are expected to hit a record in fiscal 2018, which ends next month, as they are increasingly focusing on the interests of shareholders. Planned share buybacks for fiscal 2018 as of Sunday came to ¥6.7 trillion, about ...

Companies listed on stock exchanges along with their subsidiaries have come under closer scrutiny by investors due to continuing concerns over corporate governance. Such listings serve a dual purpose for parent companies, as they can maintain their influence over subsidiaries and at the same time ...

Elizabeth Warren wants to make companies also consider workers, customers and local communities.

Anti-nuclear shareholders in major Japanese utilities called for an end to nuclear power generation at general shareholders' meetings on Wednesday, citing safety concerns and a lack of support in local communities. Among the proposals at the meetings of eight power producers were withdrawal from the ...