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...The median size of Topix companies is much lower than for a global benchmark like the S&P 500....
...The government prohibited indoor smoking in restaurants and offices last year. Such bans should worry Japan Tobacco....
...In 1989, an Osaka tempura restaurant owner, who claimed a divine destiny for her stockpicking, hosted share-tipping seances and channelled the advice of a magical toad statue, was Japan’s most successful...
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...“Happy restaurant workers = alpha,” Bank of America said....
...MarketAxess qualified for the S&P 500 index of the biggest US companies last year and, from a mid-March low, its shares have risen more than 60 per cent, giving it a market capitalisation of $17.3bn....
...Orix, the Japanese financial services group, bought Robeco in 2013 in a €1.9bn deal. After spending seven years in Asia while at JPMorgan, Mr Van Hassel speaks some Japanese....
...Japanese authorities quarantined it off the coast of Yokohama. According to Johns Hopkins University data, 13 of the 712 people on board who were infected died....
...Shareholders of Campbell Soup will next week decide if they will vote in favour of five board candidates proposed by Dan Loeb’s Third Point....
...Not bad for a restaurant chain that makes a virtue of making its customers stand to eat....
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng and Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 were flat....
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...Yum Brand’s shares have fallen 4.9 per cent year-to-date, compared with the S&P 500, which has declined 1.7 per cent....
...By close of trading shares in Restaurant Brands shed 2 per cent to $40.59. Overall US markets were weaker despite earlier fluctuations near record levels on the benchmark S&P 500 index....
...This is part of a delicate dance as China’s influence increases in Asia; Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe seeks to reinterpret Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution; and the Obama administration bolsters...
...Why didn’t anyone have pool shorts that were acceptable for the restaurant? So the idea was not to design a swim short but rather a smart short that I could swim in.”...
...The demand was delivered by Japanese hostage Kenji Goto in a recording released online....
...By close the S&P 500 rose 0.3 per cent to 1,992.37, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.4 per cent to 17,039.49. The Nasdaq Composite added 0.1 per cent to 4,532.10....
...(Details here) Markets: Most Asian indices were drifting lower in spite of a third consecutive positive session for Wall Street, although Japanese markets continued to climb....
...(Bloomberg) “Charter Communications Inc reached out to Comcast Corp this week about teaming up to buy Time Warner Cable Inc, after the larger rival rejected its $37.3 billion takeover bid, according to...
...Sony this week rebuffed a proposal by Daniel Loeb, the activist US investor, to spin off part of its entertainment business, sending shares in the Japanese group tumbling....
...(Financial Times) OVERNIGHT MARKETS: DOWN Asian markets Nikkei 225 down -21.61 (-0.17%) at 12,327 Topix down -1.48 (-0.14%) at 1,039 Hang Seng down -29.44 (-0.13%) at 23,061 US markets S&P 500 up +5.04...
...Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index rose 0.6 per cent to 19,039.15 while China’s Shanghai Composite index gained 1.1 per cent to 2,373.31....
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