Japan Crossholdings: Japan Exchange's Sale of SGX Shares Sets A Precedent - Watch Closely
The BackgroundThe establishment of the Japan Corporate Governance Code in 2015 was a beginning step to better governance at stodgy Japanese...
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All Eyes on Rakuten's Plans as Japanese Telcos Remain Sidelined by Investors
Share prices for Japanese telcos have settled at lower levels since Rakuten's (4755 JP) spectrum announcement. This weakness has come despite...
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The Two Weeks in NorthAsia@Smartkarma That Were: BOJ/N225, Buybacks, & Biosimilars
The past two weeks involved a long Chinese New Year holiday for many so last weekend's Week That Was was carried over. The "slow" two week period...
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NTT (9432 JP) Back on the Buyback Trail
NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) (9432 JP) and consolidated subsidiary NTT Docomo Inc (9437 JP) have an interesting push-me-pull-you (cf. Dr....
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NTT’s 3Q Posts Solid Growth Excluding Impacts of Several Small Write-Downs
On an underlying basis, narrow-moat NTT (Nippon Telegraph & Telephone) (9432 JP), or NTT’s, third-quarter fiscal 2017 (quarter ended December)...
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