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...The banking sector also lost out with Sumitomo Mitsui shedding 2.7 per cent to Y815,000 and Mitsubishi UFJ declining 3.6 per cent to Y976....
...Nomura Holdings, Japan’s largest broker, dropped 7.3 per cent to Y1,326 in Tokyo and HSBC, the company with the biggest weighting in Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index, Sumitomo Mitsui fell by 7.1 per cent to Y630,000...
...The monoline is beyond the jurisdictional reach of New York Messrs Spitzer, Dinallo et al, for whom the breakup tolled. But MBIA too, has ballsy investors behind it....
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