May 12, 2023
“Japanese investors bought a record amount of Treasuries in the first three months of the year as concern over the US banking sector damped bets on Federal Reserve rate hikes… Net purchases totaled ¥9.12 trillion ($68 billion) in the January-March… Continue Reading…
April 18, 2023
“A Japanese insurer with $65 billion of assets plans to offload all its currency-hedged foreign debt holdings, foreshadowing what may become a renewed wave of selling by some of the biggest investors in global bond markets… Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance… Continue Reading…
December 28, 2022
“Digital currency exchange Kraken will close down its operations in Japan next month, in another sign of consolidation in the battered crypto industry. In a blogpost on Wednesday, Kraken said it would cease crypto trading services through its Japanese subsidiary, Payward Asia,… Continue Reading…
September 29, 2022
“Nintendo carried out its previously announced 10-for-1 stock split on Thursday aimed at reducing the price of one individual share to attract new investors to the more than century old Japanese gaming giant. Prices for Nintendo’s stock reflected the split on the Japanese… Continue Reading…
March 5, 2020
“Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> said Wednesday it is now recalling 3.2 million vehicles worldwide to address a fuel pump issue that could result in engines stalling… The automaker told the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in January it was… Continue Reading…
February 18, 2020
“Japan’s economy shrank at a faster-than-expected annualized pace of 6.3% in the October-December quarter, the first contraction in more than a year, as a sales-tax increase at the beginning of the quarter cooled consumption. Japan, the world’s third-largest economy after… Continue Reading…
January 20, 2020
“… ANA All Nippon Airways All Nippon Airways (or ANA) was already the most punctual of those 10 airlines in 2018. They managed to improve their on-time performance by 2.08 points, from 85.26% in 2018 to 87.34% during the first… Continue Reading…
September 10, 2019
“Money managers at BNY Mellon and Pacific Investment Management Co. have snapped up Japanese bonds. Both companies have made the country the second-largest geographic allocation in some of their biggest international fixed-income funds. Ordinarily that wouldn’t seem remarkable, but right now many of Japan’s… Continue Reading…
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