Foreigners Buy Japan Stocks Alongside Record Futures Selling
Overseas investors dumped the most Japanese stocks on record last week while buying up cash equities amid growing uncertainty over whether a rally in shares will continue.
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Overseas investors dumped the most Japanese stocks on record last week while buying up cash equities amid growing uncertainty over whether a rally in shares will continue.
Tokyo, Oct. 7 (Jiji Press)--Japan Exchange Group Inc. said Wednesday that it will add 35 companies, including 100-yen store operator Seria Co., to the Tokyo Stock Exchange's TOPIX index as part of a component reshuffle starting at the end of this month. The exchange operator plans to periodically reshuffle TOPIX components based on market capitalization and liquidity criteria to promote a m...
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Morioka, Iwate Pref., Oct. 2 (Jiji Press)--Procrea Holdings Inc., Bank of Iwate and Akita Bank, regional lenders in northeastern Japan, said Friday that they will launch talks to combine their operations in April 2028, a deal that would create a regional banking group ranked around 10th in the country. Procrea, the parent of Aomori Michinoku Bank, Bank of Iwate and Akita Bank aim to expand t...
Tokyo, Oct. 1 (Jiji Press)--A Bank of Japan policymaker said at the BOJ's latest policy-setting meeting that the central bank needs to accelerate the pace of interest rate hikes, a summary of opinions at the Sept. 17-18 meeting showed Thursday. At the September meeting, the BOJ Policy Board voted 7-2 to raise its policy interest rate to 1.25 pct, three months after the previous rate hike in...
London, Sept. 25 (Jiji Press)--Japan retook the top spot among 110 economies in the World Economic Forum's 2026 Travel and Tourism Development Index rankings, released on Friday. Japan was followed by the United States in second place, Spain in third, Australia in fourth, and France in fifth, according to the WEF report. The Asian country had fallen to third place in the previous 2024 ra...
Japanese stocks look poised to catch up with a global AI-led rally when trading resumes on Thursday, while a weaker yen keeps currency intervention risk in focus.
Tokyo, Sept. 21 (Jiji Press)--Needy households in Japan live on an average food expenditure of less than 500 yen per person a day amid lingering inflation, according to a survey by Save the Children Japan, a nongovernmental organization. The survey, conducted in June, covered 8,736 parents nationwide who applied for food assistance from the organization. All of them provided valid responses...
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Japan’s export growth slowed a tad in August while remaining at an elevated pace, with shipments to the US leading gains.
Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)--Japan's land prices rose for the fifth consecutive year amid a mild economic recovery trend in the country, the land ministry said Monday. As of July 1, the nationwide average land price climbed 1.5 pct from a year earlier, with residential land prices rising 1.0 pct and commercial land prices rising 2.9 pct. Among the country's three metropolitan areas, the...