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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
David Hunkar submits: The complete list of Japanese ADRs traded in the U.S. is listed below: ADR Name Ticker Industry Advantest ATE Tech.Hardware&Equip. Canon CAJ Tech.Hardware&Equip. Hitachi HIT Electron.&ElectricEq Honda Motor HMC Automobiles & Parts Internet Initiative Japan IIJI Software&ComputerSvc Konami KNM Leisure Goods Kubota KUB Industrial Engineer. Kyocera KYO Electron.&ElectricEq...
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Asia Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Concern that Japan's megabanks, such as Mizuho Financial and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial, may have to sell shares to meet new international capital-adequacy standards are helping to prevent Japanese stocks from demonstrating the stellar recovery seen in other markets. - Kosuke Takahashi
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Daniel M. Harrison submits: In the traditionally sluggish world of Japanese banking, a high speed chase for cash is getting underway among megabanks as the firms gear up to tackle the challenges of the next decade. In the midst of the chase, a seismic shift may be about to take place between two of the country’s biggest banks. Last week, Mitsubishi UFJ ( MTU ) announced that it might raise as...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Filed under: Private equity , Citigroup Inc. (C) To unwind its $45 billion in federal loans, Citigroup ( C ) has been aggressively selling off non-core assets. For example, the company sold its Japanese brokerage -- Nikko Cordial Securities -- and is even planning to take its Primerica unit public. The dealmaking has continued. This week, Citigroup has agreed to sell its Bellsystem24 -- a major call...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Five of Japan's top six banks posted net profits for the April-September period amid the easing of the global downturn, although three of them saw profits decline from a year earlier, according to their financial results released Friday. Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the nation's second-largest banking group by assets, reported a group net profit of ¥87.81 billion for the first half of business...
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Mizuho Financial Group sold off some of its stock portfolio to return to profit in the second quarter, keeping its earnings forecast for the year, while rival Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group’s first-half profit jumped thanks to lower credit provisions
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Mizuho Financial's first profit in five quarters and the doubling of profit by its rival, Sumitomo Mitsui, signal that major Japanese banks are recovering from the economic crisis, albeit slowly.
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Mizuho Financial Group said Friday its fiscal first-half profit slipped 7.1% to 87.8 billion yen ($974 million), or 6.17 yen a share, from 94.6 billion yen in the year-earlier half. The result beat an average forecast of 56.3 billion yen, according to a Reuters survey. Revenue for the April-September period fell to 1.49 trillion yen from 1.90 trillion yen in the fiscal...
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KeNo's Housing and Economic Portal (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
KeNosHousingPortal.blogspot.com TOP STORIES : Japan Airlines Near Bankruptcy - ( www.reuters.com ) Japan Airlines Corp shares slid 12 percent to a record low on Friday as investors suggested bankruptcy may be an option for Asia's biggest airline by revenue, even as the government again pledged to support the troubled carrier. "There's increasing concern about the future of the company and whether...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. opened an investment banking venture Monday in Saudi Arabia. Mizuho's corporate banking unit and its Mizuho Securities Co. affiliate said the Riyadh-based operation will offer asset management services to Saudi Arabian customers and mergers and acquisition advice to Japanese firms in the nation.
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Nomura Holdings Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and their biggest rivals plan to cut hiring of university graduates by almost half, just as the industry begins emerging from its deepest slump in seven decades. Nomura, Daiwa Securities Group Inc., Nikko Cordial Securities Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. will hire a combined 4,190 graduates...
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Market Watch (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Asian markets were mixed early Wednesday, with technology shares getting a lift from Intel results and resource shares rising on higher commodity prices. But Japanese shares wavered after the Dow Jones Industrial Averaged finished lower, with exporters such as Honda Motor Co. and financial stocks led by Mizuho Financial Group dragging on the market. The Nikkei 225 Average...
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Mizozo (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
Japan's former finance minister Shoichi Nakagawa , 56, who was recently forced to resign due his drunken behaviour at a G7 news conference in February, was found dead at his home in Tokyo's residential district of Setagaya . The cause of his death has not been revealed yet. At the G7 news conference in February in Rome, Italy, he was obviously drunk. He was drunk enough to be incoherent and slurred...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Tokyo stocks closed sharply lower Friday after Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan's largest brokerage, announced massive public share offerings worth 5.6 billion U.S. dollars. The benchmark Nikkei 225 Average plunged 278.24 points, or 2.64 percent, to 10,265.98. The broader Topix index lost 27.53 points, or 2.90 percent, to 922.67. Led by securities, air transport and real estate shares, all the TSE's 33...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 15/09/2009
Credit card firm Credit Saison Co., 14.3 percent owned by Mizuho Financial Group Inc., will remain independent of the bank as its rivals join up with the country's biggest lenders. "It's a matter of keeping management independence," Chief Executive Officer Hiroshi Rinno said in an interview Monday. Credit Saison wants to keep Mizuho below the 15 percent threshold, he said. Having 15 percent...
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