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Market eyeing Nikkei for signals risk-sentiment recovered in overnight trade
There was a massive 8% intraday reversal yesterday in the Nikkei and this led to a huge clean-out in risk trades like AUD/JPY in particular. The question which will be answered today in the Tokyo stock-market is whether the Nikkei selling was purely technical or whether a reversal is underway. I'd expect the FX market to get most of its leads from the Nikkei. Today's risk events ...
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Historians tour Takeshima hit Japan
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian stocks shaky Nikkei still seen vulnerable
Fri May 24, 2013 12:22am EDT * Nikkei down 0.6 pct, erases earlier gains * Asian stocks outside Japan dip to 1-month lows * Yen rises vs USD and euro as Nikkei trims gains By Ian Chua SYDNEY, May 24 (Reuters) - Japanese stocks turned negative on Friday and the yen reversed early losses, keeping intact worries that the Nikkei's largest one-day drop in two years may be the start of a bigger ...
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UPDATE 2-US-based Japanese stock funds up $1.5 bln in record inflow streak -Lipper
By Sam Forgione NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Investors in funds based in the United States poured $1.51 billion into Japanese stock funds in the latest week, marking the longest streak of weekly inflows into the funds on record, data from Thomson Reuters' Lipper service showed on Thursday. The latest inflows in the week ended May 22 marked the 27th straight week of cash gains into funds that ...
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Does Japanese market nosedive signal the end of Abenomics
A stunning stock market plunge in Tokyo and unexpected volatility in the bond market have sparked fears that "Abenomics," the Japanese government's much-vaunted strategy to breathe life into the long-ailing economy, may already be coming unglued.The main thrust of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan is to instill confidence in Japanese consumers and businesses - and end more ...
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Japans Own Worst Enemy - By Tobias Harris
Obama to redouble efforts to shutter Gitmo, reduce drone strikes; Rosa Brooks wants POTUS in her classroom; Horror in the U.K.; Is Jon Stewart goading the WH on the VA?; Hagel: build a better software program; and a little bit more. - by Gordon ...
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Fleeting Japan scare proves its all about the Fed
'Euro crisis doesn't matter. Japan doesn't matter. China doesn't matter' NEW YORK -- Thursday had all the makings of an ugly, ugly day on Wall Street. Japan's stock market suffered a mini-crash, plunging more than 7%. A reading on China manufacturing came in soft, sending shivers down the spines of investors already concerned that weak global growth will weaken ...
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Yen higher after Japan stocks sell-off
THE yen has gained amid a sharp sell-off of Japanese stocks while the US dollar has fallen against the euro after Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke cautioned not to expect policy tightening at least for a few ...
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Analyst Suggests Caution on Popular Japan ETF
ETFs focused on the world's third-largest economy are tumbling today. That group includes the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity Fund ...
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Sony sues Imation over unlicensed Blu-Ray disc technology
Sony Corp. and three other companies that helped invent Blu-Ray movie and data discs have sued Imation Corp., claiming the data-storage company broke patent laws by selling unlicensed blank recordable versions of the discs. Oakdale-based Imation violated several patents related to Blu-Ray technology, Sony and the other consumer electronics makers said in a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court ...
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Nikkei set to rebound from Thursdays 7.3 pct plunge
TOKYO, May 24 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average is expected to rebound on Friday after a 7.3-percent dive in the previous session, its biggest one-day percentage drop in two years after weak Chinese factory data rattled investors. Despite Thursday's plunge, the Nikkei is still up 67 percent since mid-November, when Shinzo Abe, who became prime minister the following month, ...
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Japan to host world conference on disaster risk reduction next year - UN
Print 23 May 2013 – Japan will host the world conference slated to be held next year at which countries will adopt the successor to the current global blueprint for disaster risk reduction efforts, it was announced today at a United Nation forum on the issue that wrapped up in Geneva. The 10-year Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) came out of the world conference held in Kobe, Hyogo, ...
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U.S. investors shrug off big fall in Japanese stocks
All eyes are on Asian markets overnight to see if the one-day selloff stops there Fears a stock selloff in the land of the rising sun would cause the sunset of the U.S. bull market proved to be unfounded. U.S. investors with their fingers perched on the sell button after waking up to news of a 7% selloff of Japan's Nikkei 225 index button found that what happens in Asia, at least this time, ...
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Network18 sells 80 stake in Webchutney to Japanese firm Dentsu India
Capital18 has sold 80 per cent stake in digital agency Webchutney to a leading Japanese firm for an undisclosed amount. Dentsu subsidiary in India, Dentsu Media and Holdings India (DMHI), has reached an agreement with venture capital ...
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Talking Japan the U.S. and the economy at the Duquesne Club
Matthew Goodman, William E. Simon Chair of Political Economy at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, discusses the economies of the U.S., Japan and China at the Duquesne Club. To frame his discussion about the economies of the United States, Japan and China, Matthew Goodman from the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted that on Thursday morning U.S. media were ...
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Japans weak currency means tourism
The number of tourists coming to Japan dropped dramatically after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. But between the weak currency and fading memories of the disaster, tourism saw a record high last ...
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Japanese official discussion finished for resuming talks with N. Korea
Japanese official: discussion finished for resuming talks with N. Korea . MAY 24, 2013 06:01. . Isao Iijima, an adviser to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, said Thursday that when he visited North Korea last week, he finished working-level talks for the proposed resumption of negotiations for establishing formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. His remark suggested that ...
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Sony board examines hedge fund spin-off plan
(MENAFN - Arab News) Sony chief Kazuo Hirai said Wednesday the company was examining a hedge fund proposal to sell off part of its entertainment unit in a bid to boost profits in its core business. Hirai told a press conference board members have started discussing the idea raised by key shareholder Daniel Loeb, whose investment fund Third Point suggested spinning off as much as 20 percent of ...
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Japans ANA to resume Dreamliner flights Sunday
Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) on Thursday said it would put its Dreamliner fleet back into service this weekend, several days ahead of schedule. ANA, the single biggest operator of Boeing's flagship 787, plans to use the high-tech planes for two domestic flights from Chitose airport in Hokkaido to Haneda in Tokyo, earlier than its original plan for June 1. "Modifications for ...
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Veteran fears beginning of the end for Japan as bond market buckles
Yields on 10-year Japanese bonds (JGBs) have doubled in a month and spiked dramatically to 1pc on Thursday, triggering a 7.3pc crash in the Nikkei stock index. It was the biggest one-day fall since the tsunami two years ago, comparable with wild moves seen at the height of the Asian crisis in 1998. The contagion effect set off a retreat from stocks across the world, though Wall Street later ...
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Panel English should be regular primary class
A council directly under Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has recommended English become a regular subject at primary schools, as part of efforts to rejuvenate the national education ...
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The market freak-out over Japan today was premature
because of "the unreasonable increase in the volatility of long-term rates." If debt-servicing costs go wild, Japan will have lost its chance to grow out of two lost decades. "There's a window in time where there's room to make the necessary adjustments [i.e. structural reforms]," said Ken Courtis, managing director of Starfort Holdings, at a World Economic ...
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Japanese distiller aims to revolutionise whisky drinking
whisky drinkers, and until recently that meant holing up in a small, dark den designed for serious drinking. But the country's leading distiller has been revolutionising drinking culture with the aid of a pint glass and a more than generous slug of soda.The whisky highballs introduced by Suntory, the privately owned Japanese drinks conglomerate that has the lion's share of the ...
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A look at weekend Thoroughbred racing
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer and, with no Triple Crown hopes to extend the spring, also kicks off a "second season" of racing. There are important turf races at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, Hollywood Park and Arlington Park. Some of the nation's top steeds will be on display in the Grade I Met Mile at Belmont. Fillies and mares are in action from coast to coast and ...
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Kenya Envoy Japan seeking closer ties with Kenya
Japan will scale up its operations in the country by drafting stout policy frameworks and constructing developmental projects to accelerate growth in Kenya. Japanese ...
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Japan focuses on next big export
Smart grids are the way of the future, according to a Japanese consortium of seven companies that want to invest in the cities of the future and pave the way for the next big export to come out of Japan.
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