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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2009
... US dollar hit commodities firms. In Tokyo, shippers lost ground after reporting poor earnings, with Kawasaki Kisen and Nippon Yusen losing value. Hitachi, which reports on Thursday, gained 2.3 per cent after it narrowed its net loss forecast for this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... seven-week closing high, buoyed by high-tech shares such as Tokyo Electron, but gains were capped ahead of key company earnings. Nippon Steel fell 3.5 per cent after the company said it swung to a quarterly loss, widened its first-half loss forecast ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2009
... 0.07 per cent, to 3,312.03. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei stock average lost 0.8 per cent, snapping a six-day rising streak as Nippon Yusen and other shippers sank after weak US economic data tempered hopes for a global economic recovery. The benchmark Nikkei ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... one per cent as profit concerns in the global economic downturn hit exporters such as Honda Motor, with merger news from Nippon Oil Corp failing to provide support. The benchmark Nikkei shed 79.86 points to 7,924.24. HONG KONG - The benchmark Hang Seng ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... first positive close in three days, boosted by a retreat of the yen against the dollar that lifted exporters and gains in Nippon Oil and other oil-linked firms as oil hovered close to record levels. The Nikkei gained 88.02 points to end at 13,743.36. ...

ASEAN's mute economic muscle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... eyeing the region's emerging markets, especially Vietnam. Japan's influential relationship with ASEAN also explains why the Nippon Foundation has just seeded the Myanmar emergency humanitarian relief fund set up by the ASEAN Secretariat with a US$100,000 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... up 72.01 or 1.48 per cent. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei edged up 0.2 per cent, with oil's surge towards $120 a barrel boosting Nippon Oil and trading houses that deal in the increasingly pricey fuel. The Nikkei gained 31.34 points to close at 13,579.16. HONG ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... wave of short-covering on chances of a US rate cut and shipping firms powering up on good earnings for industry leader Nippon Yusen KK. The Nikkei finished up 2.99 per cent at 13,478.86, a gain of 390.95 points. HONG KONG - Hong Kong stocks rose, with ...

Green light over red tape

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... in infrastructure projects. We've had serious customer complaints from our biggest Japanese commodities buyers including Nippon Steel, who spends around $3 billion dollars a year on Queensland coal and WA iron ore. Fed up with costly supply bottlenecks ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... 160.80 points since last weekend. TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei nudged just slightly ahead by 0.23 per cent. Steel shares including Nippon Steel did especially well, gaining on the back of solid output data. However, price war fears triggered a fall in KDDI ...