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...compounding investor worry that the appreciation of the yen will further reduce share value and corporate profits. Mitsubishi UFJ, like Japan's other mega-banks, avoided damage caused by the subprime crisis, but its stock portfolio is now taking a hit as the Nikkei and Tokyo Stock Price Index (Topix) continue to fall and wipe value from its balance sheet. One credit analyst estimates that since the end of June, the total stock value held by the top three banks has dropped by $56 billion, signaling that other banks are clearly at risk...
Japan's banks have worked to reduce their shareholdings, but economists and bank analysts have mixed views on just how much exposure banks now have to stock price movement. Hironari Nozaki, a bank analyst at Nikko Citigroup, says that mega-banks should be stable even if the Topix plummets to 600 or the Nikkei 5,500. (they closed Monday at 746 and 7,162 respectively). "But," he says, "I don't want to imagine that situation...
...Around the world, stocks have been on a tear. In Asia, for example, the Tokyo TOPIX stock index hit a 14-year high last week as a bull run in once-dormant Japan gathered momentum; Bombay's main equity index hit an all-time high in trading early Friday amid India's continuing economic boom; and Hong Kong shares reached a five-year high while indices in Singapore, Jakarta and Sydney set new records. And though stocks in Asia, in particular, are on fire, they are not alone. From Germany to Venezuela to South Africa, equity markets in both mature...
...point we may have $100 million to $200 million invested in what I would call Internet-technology-related companies, like Topix. net, which searches headlines for the topic you're interested in. It makes searching for news stories easier...
...associates-his longtime secretary, Marcia Williams, and her brother Anthony Field, Wilson's frequent golfing partner and onetime office manager-had profited in a land speculation deal (TIME, April 15). There was nothing illegal about it, and Wilson himself was not involved. But many Britons found it unseemly TOPIX that the charge of land speculation should be raised against intimate colleagues of a man who a few weeks ago was denouncing it as "the biggest single scandal, the ugliest of the faces of present-day capitalism...
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