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...Also on Sept. 22, another Japanese bottom fisher took a step it had been preparing for since spring, when Kenichi Watanabe, CEO of Nomura Holdings, began raising a $5.6 billion war chest to increase his firm's international footprint. Tokyo's biggest investment bank said it would buy the Asia operations of Lehman Bros., the bankrupt Wall Street firm, and was in negotiations to take over its European operations as well. The $225-million deal saves the jobs of about 3,000 Lehman employees, some of whom expressed surprise as well as relief that they might keep their jobs...
...region's big boys - Telefónica, say, or Deutsche Telekom - Telenor was too small to make much headway in established European markets. It "never had the firepower to go for scale in Europe along the lines pursued by others," says Martin Mabbutt, telecoms analyst at financial services group Nomura in London...
...small to matter. Our survey found that the host nations that appeared to benefit were smaller countries like South Korea where Olympics spending seemed to have a meaningful impact on overall economic activity. But China is the world's fourth largest economy. According to a 2007 report by Nomura Securities, China's Olympics outlays and tourism revenues will boost the GDP growth rate by a miniscule 0.25 percentage points in 2008. Moreover, Beijing, the host city where the impacts are strongest, plays a relatively small role in the national economy, contributing only 4.4% to GDP, according to a Credit Suisse...
...point out that a weak dollar doesn't necessarily mean a strong yen. The exchange rate of the yen to other currencies - such as the euro - still shows depreciation. But the dollar-yen pair heavily weights consumer sentiment and the stock market, says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities, and the rate right now has an overall negative affect...
...equity firm to find the excess fat in a company; and one that operates in the decadent music business ought to be easier than most. But ensuring that company has a long-term future is trickier. On that score, Hands has a decent back catalogue. First with Japanese bank Nomura, and more recently at Terra Firma, the 48-year-old boosted the fortunes of a slew of companies, from a waste-recycling group to a chain of pubs...