Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

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Buybacks (or "own share purchases") by listed companies Japan are likely to be at a record this year. In only the first 5 months of calendar 2016, Japanese companies have announced JPY 4.3trln yen of buybacks, and in the past ten years, only two full years have seen higher totals (2007 and 2015 at just over 4.5trln yen each). There will likely be a lot more before the year-end and a lot of them will take place by ToSTNeT-3 buyback. The announcement today of a ToSTNeT-3 buyback by <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/783" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:783">NTT</a>  for up to…

Buybacks (or "own share purchases") by listed companies Japan are likely to be at a record this year. In only the first 5 months of calendar 2016, Japanese companies have announced JPY 4.3trln yen of buybacks, and in the past ten years, only two full years have seen higher totals (2007 and 2015 at just over 4.5trln yen each). There will likely be a lot more before the year-end and a lot of them will take place by ToSTNeT-3 buyback. The announcement today of a ToSTNeT-3 buyback by NTT  for up to…

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RRG Internet Consumer Activity Monitors (ICAMs) and News Flow - Testing the Ability to Identify Media Bias<ul><li>People tend to adjust their answers in telephone surveys according to what they think the surveyor expects to hear and what they have observed in the media. When searching or shopping anonymously online this ‘media bias’ is not as strong.</li><li>We believe that a strong global negative media bias is tainting the results of telephone surveys, holding down measures of consumer sentiment and confusing policy makers.</li><li>We have long believed that large divergences between the RRG Asia (Internet Consumer Activity Monitor) ICAM Index and the RRG Global Consumer Sentiment Index (GCSI) are driven by media bias.</li><li>In this report we put this theory to the test. If there is in fact a ‘negative media bias’ we would expect to see it in the actual news flow. To do this we create a ‘News Flow Monitor’ which provides an indication into the sentiment of the news flow each month.</li><li>Results from our News Flow Monitor highlight the stark change in news flow sentiment seen since the global financial crisis. Interestingly the News Flow Monitor has recently become extremely volatile.  Heightened volatility seen in news flow sentiment is very telling of the current global economic environment.</li></ul>

RRG Internet Consumer Activity Monitors (ICAMs) and News Flow - Testing the Ability to Identify Media BiasPeople tend to adjust their answers in telephone surveys according to what they think the surveyor expects to hear and what they have observed in the media. When searching or shopping anonymously online this ‘media bias’ is not as strong.We believe that a strong global negative media bias is tainting the results of telephone surveys, holding down measures of consumer sentiment and confusing policy makers.We have long believed that large divergences between the RRG Asia (Internet Consumer Activity Monitor) ICAM Index and the RRG Global Consumer Sentiment Index (GCSI) are driven by media bias.In this report we put this theory to the test. If there is in fact a ‘negative media bias’ we would expect to see it in the actual news flow. To do this we create a ‘News Flow Monitor’ which provides an indication into the sentiment of the news flow each month.Results from our News Flow Monitor highlight the stark change in news flow sentiment seen since the global financial crisis. Interestingly the News Flow Monitor has recently become extremely volatile.  Heightened volatility seen in news flow sentiment is very telling of the current global economic environment.

RRG Proprietary Measure Uses Online Activity to Measure Consumer Sentiment in Asia

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Kao Corporation is a manufacturer of household and chemical products. The company produces cosmetics, laundry and cleaning products, hygiene products, fatty chemicals, edible oils, and specialty chemicals.

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JAPAN: How a ToSTNeT-3 Buyback Works

Buybacks (or "own share purchases") by listed companies Japan are likely to be at a record this year. In only the first 5 months of calendar 2016,...

Travis Lundy

RRG Proprietary Measure Uses Online Activity to Measure Consumer Sentiment in Asia

RRG Internet Consumer Activity Monitors (ICAMs) and News Flow - Testing the Ability to Identify Media Bias People tend to adjust their answers in...

David Riedel

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