Japan Short Interest - Feels like a Squeeze; Softbank Corp Most Shorted
The short notional in the market for the week ended 6 September is US$25.47bn with the largest short positions in Itochu Corp (8001 JP), Toyota...
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Shimane Bank (7150 JP): And Behold, a Pale Knight
The stock price of Shimane Bank Ltd/ The (7150 JP), a tiny, struggling Japanese secondary regional bank from Shimane Prefecture in the Chugoku...
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Rakuten Focuses on Rakuten Ichiba as Sales Surge Again
Rakuten's (4755 JP) CEO, Hiroshi Mikitani, took his eye off the original online mall business in the last five years as he focused on trying to...
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Japan Telcos: Softbank Ends the Contract Regime but Other Retention Factors Play a Role
Softbank Corp. will end two-year contracts for mobile customers later this month. This follows regulatory action that requires mobile operators to...
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SONY's Good Governance Sale: The OLYMPUS (7733) ToSTNeT-3 Buyback
Yesterday after the close, Olympus Corp (7733 JP) announced that Sony Corp (6758 JP) had approached Olympus saying it wished to sell its 68,975,800...
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