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...His comments came as the TSE prepares for a reorganisation that will streamline the “first” and “second” sections of the main bourse, along with the Jasdaq and Mothers markets for smaller companies and start-ups...
...The central bank has been listed on the Jasdaq market for small companies since 2004 but first became a publicly traded company in 1949....
...JPX group — owner of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Mothers market and Jasdaq — says that 25 companies will carry out initial public offerings between December 15 and December 29....
...Investors often struggle to tell the difference between the first and second sections or a tangle of small-cap markets such as Mothers and Jasdaq....
...Other proposals being floated ahead of the TSE’s hotly anticipated “review of equity market structure” in April call for tighter controls over entry to the markets for start-ups, Jasdaq and Mothers, and...
...Tech Bureau said it had reached a basic agreement to sell majority control of the exchange to Fisco, a company listed on the Jasdaq exchange, in return for a ¥5bn capital injection....
...That, more than the currency, is what should keep the Jasdaq train in motion....
...If the yen begins to slide, say the strategists, expect the Jasdaq’s run to fade....
...But here we are, with the benchmark Topix up more than 20 per cent at around a 26-year high, the index that tracks the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s second section (TSE2) up 37 per cent, the feisty Jasdaq up 41...
...Add in the performance of the Jasdaq and TSE2 indices this year (both known as prime hunting grounds for small-cap winners and up 39 per cent and 32 per cent, respectively), and you have what appears a compelling...
...To take last week as an example, Japanese individuals represented 53 per cent, 61 per cent and 65 per cent, respectively, of the traded value on the TSE2, Mothers and Jasdaq markets....
...But for real exuberance, the place to look is the Jasdaq market, whose main benchmark has soared 41.9 per cent this year, propelled on a wave of new listings and confidence that wage growth is finally lifting...
...A recent academic paper concluded that since the programme began in April 2013, it has significantly influenced the N225 and Topix, while having no major impact on the Jasdaq index, whose components are...
...The Jasdaq and the Kosdaq, the Japanese and South Korean equivalents of the US’s Nasdaq, were down 0.4 per cent and 1.3 per cent, respectively....
...The ChiNext is bigger but riskier while the Jasdaq is smaller and less active,” said Mr Kim....
...Honma listed on Japan’s Jasdaq over-the-counter market in 1995 but struggled in the 1990s after buying Japanese golf courses itself....
...The January frenzy of retail investment in ETFs, say analysts, appears to have come at the direct expense of the day-traders’ traditional favourites: small-cap stocks listed on the Mothers and Jasdaq markets...
...At 8.1 per cent, the total ROE for non-financial companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Jasdaq and Mother’s markets was lower in the financial year that ended in March 2015 than the 8.5 per cent achieved...
...“Overseas investors have been consistent net buyers on the Jasdaq since November last year, and we believe they will continue to focus on the Jasdaq market going forward,” says Yutaka Miura of Mizuho....
...Before the profit warning, four out of five analysts covering McDonald’s Holdings (Japan) recommended that investors sell the shares, putting it among the 30 least popular stocks on the 877-strong Jasdaq...
...At their peak the stock’s volumes are less than half of 1 per cent of Jasdaq’s total....
...Daily trading volumes by the Jasdaq index have more than doubled this year compared to 2012, partly aided by changes to margin trading....
...Reports of the approach by the OSE sent shares in the Jasdaq-listed company down more than 4 per cent on Tuesday....
...The smaller indices have gone nuts with the Mothers index of small caps up 52 per cent and the Jasdaq up 40 per cent this year alone....
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