Hitachi Chem Tender Launch Will Make Arbs Happy
In early December, Hitachi Ltd (6501 JP) and Showa Denko K K (4004 JP) offered a press release to say that the two had agreed on exclusive...
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Japan Long Weekend Portfolio Blowout Theme Is Working Quickly
On Thursday we highlighted a number of stock pairs that had seen extreme levels of relative performance dislocations, speculating that this was due...
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What Is Getting Blown Out of Portfolios Before the Long Weekend in Japan?
We previously highlighted the strong skew between names which have a heavy weighting in Topix vs. those which have a heavy weighting in the Nikkei....
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Smartkarma Originals
A Potential Asian LBO Screening System
With a relatively full slate of large value takeovers in Developed Asia in the past year - often by parents but also by buyout funds - and the...
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Hitachi Chemicals – Is Antitrust a Concern?
This morning the Nikkei reported that Showa Denko’s tender offer for Hitachi Chemical would be delayed into March or later due to delays obtaining...
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