Smartkarma’s Week That Was in JP/KR: Tokyo Electron, Suruga Bank, & Depreciating KRW
KOSPI is up 1.3% YTD. KRW has depreciated 5.6% versus USD YTD. Nikkei is up 2.0% YTD. Yen has appreciated 1.3% versus USD YTD. In the past week,...
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Japan Banks – Unloved for Many Reasons
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) offers negative interest rates on monies deposited. Japan’s banks are largely wholesale, with lumpy corporate loans and in...
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Japanese Banks: Beyond the Ides of March
“Beware the Ides of March”: the soothsayer’s repeated warning to ancient Rome’s most famous emperor in William Shakespeare’s play ‘Julius Caesar’. ...
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*TW3/North Asia* That Was The Week That Was 🇰🇷 🇯🇵 11th-17th February 2019 @Smartkarma
TW3 NORTH ASIA - This was a busy week for the North Asian team on Smartkarma. with 967 results announcements and 577 forecasts revisions in Japan...
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Japanese Banks: These Lifeless Things (The Ozymandias Syndrome)
Japanese bank stocks performed so poorly in 2018, with the Topix Bank Index falling 25.7% while the overall market declined by a lesser 16.4%, that...
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