The Japanese government's plan to scrap hefty capital gains taxes on foreign investment in funds will be submitted to Parliament in coming weeks, a move that could potentially boost investment.
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Stocks in Asia were mostly higher as Japanese shares rose for a seventh-straight day.
Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei index rose more than 2% in late afternoon trading as investors cheered a reported plan to scrap capital-gains tax on foreigners who invest in Japanese companies through funds.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's second-largest retailer Aeon Co Ltd slashed its earnings outlook and said it may post its first annual net loss in seven years, hit by flagging sales, a writedown at U.S. unit Talbots and accounting changes.
Filed under: Deals, Products and services, Industry, Consumer experience, Competitive strategy, Economic data, Personal financeAs everyone knows, the auto industry is on the skids. In December sales of cars and light trucks fell by 36% to 896,124 vehicles, with Chrysler down 53%, GM down 31% and Ford down 32%. Toyota, with sales also down, is suspending production in Japan for 11 days. The auto...
I’ve said it before, but I came into the investment business through the back door as a risk manager. Unlike most quantitative analysts, I came with a greater depth of knowledge of economic history, and a distrust of the assumptions behind most quantitative finance models, because things can be much more volatile than most current market participants can imagine. As a result, I often ran ...
Filed under: Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Japan, AgricultureThis post was written by Minyanville contributor Jeff Macke. Good Morning from New York, where the coffee is thick as mud and only slightly less bitter than the news from Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM). The Japanese automaker said it would be shutting down production for 11 days in the face of falling demand. There are also unconfirmed repo...
No, I'm not talking about the big up open we had this morning that is fading, nor am I talking about yesterday's market declines. I am referring to the Fiesta Bowl last night, where Ohio State came back from being down 17-6 going into the fourth quarter, only to lose in the closing seconds. Great game...tough loss.Getting back to the markets, stocks opened sharply higher but quickly gave up mos...
It's about 11:00 AM on Tuesday morning and the Japanese Yen is down once again. If you recall I was warning of a top the day before the actually high which was made on December 17th. The day after the high I posted about the island top that developed which added further confirmation that a top has been made. You can read those two posts by clicking here and here.
After receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded federal bailout money, the biggest U.S. banks say they can’t track how that money is being spent. Some of the banks are outright refusing to discuss the matter, a new study has found. "We have not disclosed that to the public. We’re declining to," Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JP Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM...