Stocks extended their losing streak to a fourth session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions over North Korea, with the key Nikkei average hitting a fresh three-month closing low. The benchmark Nikkei 225 average fell 77.28 points, or 0.40 ...
The benchmark Nikkei average plunged to its lowest close in over three months on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, hurt chiefly by growing concerns over U.S. President Donald Trump's economic agenda. The Nikkei 225 average fell 232.22 points, or 1.18 percent, to 19,470.41, its lowest ...
KYODO The government pension fund said it has begun investing about ¥1 trillion in domestic stocks in line with three equity indexes covering firms that meet certain environmental, social and corporate governance criteria. Through the move, the Government Pension Investment Fund aims to prompt Japanese companies ...
Stocks rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday after closely watched events overseas, pushing up the benchmark Nikkei average back above the 20,000 line. The Nikkei 225 average rose 104.00 points, or 0.52 percent, to end at 20,013.26. On Thursday, the key market gauge lost ...
The Bank of Japan has had a lot less impact on the Japanese stock market than some have assumed in recent years, and the effectiveness of its purchases in reflating the economy may be limited, according to analysis by Societe Generale. While the BOJ held ...
Japanese stocks have been battered so badly that they're too cheap to ignore, says the $165 billion investor Pictet Asset Management Ltd., after the Topix index tumbled to its fifth straight weekly loss. "It's a buying opportunity," Hiroshi Matsumoto, head of Japan investment at the ...
While traditional investment wisdom holds that the market will be volatile in 2017, Tokyo stocks will likely continue the current "Trump rally" this year, although at a mild pace, supported by a weaker yen and solid corporate earnings. The course of the stock market in ...
Carson Block, the prominent short seller and founder of Muddy Waters Capital LLC, targeted a Japanese firm for the first time with a negative report on motor-maker Nidec Corp. Muddy Waters is short the Kyoto-based company and sees its stock falling as much as 52 ...
Policy pledges by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump are bullish for Japanese share prices, which will build on their recent gains in 2017, according to Norikazu Akedo, a senior managing director at Nomura Holdings Inc.'s brokerage unit. Trump's election win was a "great turning point" for ...
Yoshinori Nomura felt like weeping. It was the morning of June 24, Brexit day, and markets were moving against him. Well, not against him, exactly. It was the hedge fund manager's self-learning computer program that had placed the bet, selling Japanese stock-index futures before a ...
The government is considering expanding the small-lot NISA investment program by introducing a longer-term tax break, sources said Thursday. It hopes to attract more younger savers with the move. The Financial Services Agency intends to include the creation of such an option under the Nippon Individual ...
Stats Investment Management Co., whose hedge fund posted a positive return in each of the past 10 years, said the era of easy gains in the Japanese stock market fueled by Abenomics is over. Equities surged almost 80 percent in the three years through 2015, ...
