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...businesses around the world. SIIC is owned by the Shanghai city government. Not to be ignored is the fact that China's State President, Jiang Zemin, is a former mayor of Shanghai. "The name of the game in China is relationships," explains Kent Rossiter, a senior investment analyst at Nikko Securities Co. (Asia). "Shanghai Industrial's connections are fantastic...
...comes from retirement plans like 401(k) savings funds set up by corporations to pool their workers' contributions. "With 401(k)s, regardless of what the market does, people are plowing in their money week after week, fortnight after fortnight, month after month," notes Robert Brusca, chief economist of Nikko Securities, a Wall Street firm. Once a worker designates a certain portion of his pay to be set aside and put into stocks, the 401(k) keeps investing the same amount unless the worker changes his contribution. And such investors take longer to change their mind than those who play...
...representatives of ADM's two biggest rivals in the field, the Japanese companies Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko. The Japanese were in a jam because prices had plunged from about $1.30 per lb. before ADM entered the market to about 60 cents per lb. When the group gathered at a Nikko Hotel conference room in Mexico City, Wilson stated that the price drop had created an unacceptable situation: buyers of lysine were getting a $200 million break at the expense of ADM and the Japanese producers. "The competitor is our friend, and the customer is our enemy," Whitacre quotes Wilson...
...Spears, managing director of Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell, a New York City investment firm. "Most of the growth in this business cycle is behind us. Fed policy will have an important bearing on how the economy pans out the rest of the year." Concurs Robert Brusca, chief economist for Nikko Securities: "It looks, smells and tastes like a slowdown. Common sense should reinforce this view...
Only hours later, Takuya Iwasaki, president of Nikko securities, the country's third largest securities firm, went before cameras to say he too would step down. Iwasaki was taking responsibility for Nikko's spending $136 million to compensate rich investors and for loan dealings with ex-crime boss Ishii...