Business / Financial Markets Dec 3, 2020
Fujitsu president given 50% pay cut over Tokyo Stock Exchange outage
Takahito Tokita will see his earnings slashed for four months as a result of the bourse's one-day outage in October.
Business / Financial Markets | TSE DATA & REPORT Jan 21, 2019
Stocks rose Monday, supported by a continued rise on Wall Street late last week. The Nikkei 225 average rose 53.26 points, or 0.26 percent, to end at 20,719.33, a level unseen since Dec. 19. On Friday, the key market yardstick jumped 263.80 points. The Topix, which ...
Business / Financial Markets Jan 5, 2019
After plunge, Tokyo stocks expected to remain unstable in coming week
Tokyo stocks are expected to remain unstable next week, with persistent concerns over a slowdown in the global economy likely to continue to grip the market, observers have said. On Friday, the first trading day of 2019 after the New Year's holidays, the Nikkei tumbled ...
Business / Financial Markets | TSE DATA & REPORT Jan 4, 2019
Stocks ended the first trading day of 2019 with heavy losses Friday as a sharply stronger yen and an overnight plunge in U.S. equities spurred broad selloffs on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. The 225-issue Nikkei average tumbled 452.81 points, or 2.26 percent, to close at ...
Business / Financial Markets Dec 28, 2018
China-U.S. trade spat's influence likely to send Tokyo stocks into another slide in 2019
Other concerns include the planned consumption tax hike at home and a stronger yen, with both endangering corporate profits.
Commentary / Japan Dec 27, 2018
2019: Reasons to be bullish or bearish
by Heizo Takenaka
It was in September 2008 that the collapse of Lehman Brothers triggered an economic shock leading to a global recession. Since then, most countries have gradually recovered, and in recent years what came to be called a Great Moderation permeated the world's economies. That market ...
Business Aug 15, 2018
Tokyo Stock Exchange firms expect first net profit fall in 3 years: survey
The nation's major companies are expecting the first decline in combined net profit in three years for the current business year ending next March, as they anticipate the effects of the U.S.-China trade spat, according to a survey released Wednesday. The survey by SMBC Nikko ...
Business / Financial Markets | FOCUS Dec 19, 2017
Tokyo Stock Exchange is an 'irresponsible' market referee, fund head says
by Tom Redmond and Takako Taniguchi
The Tokyo Stock Exchange is failing in its duty as a market referee, according to the chairman of a prominent Japanese investment fund. The TSE must serve as arbiter of the regulations for companies that it started in June 2015, said Yasushi Ando of New ...
Business / Financial Markets Sep 6, 2017
Mom and pop investors tiptoe into Japan's lucrative REIT market
by Min Jeong Lee, Katsuyo Kuwako and Toshiro Hasegawa
This summer, Japanese real estate investment trusts benefited from an unexpected group of net buyers for the first time in nearly seven years: Mom and pop investors. Encouraged by the relatively lucrative returns, an increasing number of retail investors are putting their money in some ...
Business / Financial Markets Jul 1, 2017
Sharp Corp. has applied to be relisted on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange after being demoted last year while in dire straits. The move, announced Friday, is part of the electronics maker's rebound under Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. after years ...
Business / Corporate Jun 20, 2017
Sharp to file next week for return to Tokyo Stock Exchange first section
Sharp Corp. will file next week to return to the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange after being demoted last year due to poor financial health, the president said Tuesday. The move comes as the electronics maker aims to return to a growth track ...