From risk to liquidity - key financial market themes
Source: The Nation
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 20:16:21 -0700 | business-news
00 am Financial markets are inherently complex and unpredictable. However, for analytical purposes, it is often useful to simplify market movements into themes...On the opposite end, there were risk-off assets such as sovereign bonds (especially from developed countries), volatility-linked...
Sony chief says time needed to study proposal
Source: Merced Sun-Star
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 21:10:38 -0700 | business-news
Sony Corp.'s chief executive says time is needed to study a proposal from a U.S. major hedge fund to spin off a part of the company's entertainment unit. Kazuo Hirai was speaking to investors packing a Tokyo hall at the...
Does Nintendo Still Stand a Chance?
Source: The Motley Fool
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 19:56:10 -0700 | business-news
Those powerful rival systems will drop in time for the holidays this year. Sony's console looks like the bigger threat so far, but Nintendo isn't equipped to stave off either one. This is where many a soon-to-fail hardware gadget sees...
Social network gaffes plague Japanese politicians
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
Hashimoto :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 21:50:15 -0700 | business-news
This Yasuhisa Mizuno , the former Reconstruction Agency official for Fukushima-Dai-ichi victims, was fired over this tweet: "Attended a meeting where I was merely yelled at by leftist (vulgarity)...He posted the comment March 7, but it was overlooked for several...
BILL GROSS: Ben Bernanke Is Deathly Afraid Of Deflation
Source: BusinessInsider
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 17:13:43 -0700 | business-news
Among other things, Gross emphasized the importance of the low inflation readings we've been getting out of the economy (emphasis added). I think the Chairman is almost deathly afraid and we have witnessed in speeches going back five or 10...
Micron turns profit for first time in 2 years
Source: The Idaho Statesman
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 14:09:43 -0700 | business-news
Statesman staff Micron Technology Inc. reported its first profit in two years Wednesday. The memory-chip maker said it earned $43 million in the quarter that ended May 30. That compares with a $320 million loss in the same quarter of...
Renault promises savings on new car architecture
Source: The Economic Times
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 11:35:02 -0700 | business-news
French carmaker Renault has pledged to slash the cost of developing future models by 30-40 percent as it rolls out a new generation of vehicle architectures with alliance partner Nissan. Parts costs will ultimately fall by 20-30 percent for models...
GUNDLACH: The Only Place Investors Will Make Money In The Coming Weeks Is 'The Most Hated Asset ...
Source: BusinessInsider
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 10:38:19 -0700 | business-news
Some of the big Wall Street shops are looking for the sell-off in the Treasury market to continue after the Federal Reserve's monetary policy statement and press conference today. Societe Generale interest rate strategists, for example, suggest that Bernanke will...
Diana Furchtgott-Roth: The CBO and the case for immigration
Source: MarketWatch
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 18:44:31 -0700 | business-news
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has calculated that the immigration reform bill under consideration in the Senate, S.744, would lower the federal budget deficit by $197 billion over the coming decade, and by $700 billion in 2024 to 2033. Entitled...
Will GM Be "Government Motors" Forever?
Source: The Motley Fool
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 07:55:49 -0700 | business-news
This followed a decision by GM last December to buy back 200 million shares from the Treasury Department for $5.5 billion...We are thus closing in on the end of the government ownership era for GM in the United States...Most Americans...
Why It Would Be Foolish to Sell Your Stocks
Source: The Motley Fool
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 07:55:38 -0700 | business-news
The market has pulled back from its recent highs, and investors have begun to talk about bubbles in several asset classes. Long-term investors should stay focused on the key trends that can move markets, as opposed to scary headlines and...
Rupee snaps 2-day fall, up 7 paise
Source: The Hindu
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 07:02:38 -0700 | business-news
Erasing early losses, rupee on Wednesday ended 7 paise higher at 58.70 its first gain in three days on recovery in local stocks and fresh dollar selling by exporters ahead of the outcome of US Fed policy meet. However, FII...
Dow May Jump as Investors Wait for Fed
Source: The Motley Fool
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 17:58:54 -0700 | business-news
It's been four weeks since May 22, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said that stimulus measures might be tapered if employment data showed sustained improvement, but despite the volatility we've seen during that period, the Dow closed last night...
The Big Fat Kerala Wedding
Source: The Hindu
Kōchi :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 05:35:16 -0700 | business-news
Apparently, many new-age couples bring in additional photographers who are specialised in people photography' to click photos that capture candid expressions of guests and the bridal party. Of late, there is a move towards Western concepts with regards to wedding...
Too soon to call time on Abenomics
Source: BBC
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-06-19 09:40:57 -0700 | business-news
But today's export numbers and other encouraging signs from the real economy suggest that his radical approach is working about as well as anyone might have expected, given the enormous obstacles in its path...He will have an opportunity to confront...
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