Lotte Chemical Is Buying Showa Denko Shares in Market: Now Holds 4.46%
What a surprise. Lotte Chemical, once pursuing Hitachi Chemical, is now owning a 4.46% stake in Showa Denko, which beat Lotte in the Hitachi...
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Hitachi Chem (4217); Tender Complete, NEW Largest Japan Squeezeout Ever?
Two weeks ago saw Hitachi High Technologies Co (8036 JP) become the largest squeezeout in Japan (that I can find or recall) at ¥103.3bn. Today saw...
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Hitachi Chem Tender Launch Will Make Arbs Happy
In early December, Hitachi Ltd (6501 JP) and Showa Denko K K (4004 JP) offered a press release to say that the two had agreed on exclusive...
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Japan Long Weekend Portfolio Blowout Theme Is Working Quickly
On Thursday we highlighted a number of stock pairs that had seen extreme levels of relative performance dislocations, speculating that this was due...
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What Is Getting Blown Out of Portfolios Before the Long Weekend in Japan?
We previously highlighted the strong skew between names which have a heavy weighting in Topix vs. those which have a heavy weighting in the Nikkei....
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