Delisting fears hit Nikko shares
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Shares in Japanese broker Nikko Cordial plunge 14% on fears it may be delisted after an accounting scandal.
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Tokyo's Nikkei lost 1 percent on Thursday  as stocks such as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. fell after  disappointing earnings from U.S. firms fanned concern about  profit trends and sent Wall Street lower.
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Japan's Nikko Cordial narrowly escaped being delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday after a surprise decision which could complicate US giant Citigroup's attempt to take over the scandal-hit securities firm.
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Retailer's stock sinks after investors agree to sell their shares at a lower-than-expected price.
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OUSE prices have fallen for the second month running. Rising interest rates and warnings that the market is overheated have apparently left buyers running scared.
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Japan's Nikkei share average fell 0.94  percent by mid-morning on Friday as Nippon Steel Corp. and  rival steel makers took a hit following China's surprise  decision to raise interest rates.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average fell 0.14 percent by midday on Thursday with losses in shipping firms, steel makers and several technology shares overshadowing gains in selective small-cap stocks and firms with bright earnings outlooks.
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Citigroup, the financial giant, is expected to announce an offer to increase its stake in the scandal-tainted Japanese brokerage company the Nikko Cordial Corporation, said a Nikko spokesman, Shigeyuki Teshima. The potential $5 billion deal would mark Citigroupâs resurgence in Japan. Nikko Cordial faces a delisting from the Tokyo stock exchange because of an accounting scandal. According to media reports, the talks are aimed at Citigroup raising its stake in Nikko to above 50 percent, from under 5 percent. A Citigroup spokeswoman, Atsuko Yoshitsugu, declined to comment.
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The Nikkei lost 1 percent on Thursday as  stocks such as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. fell after  downbeat earnings at U.S. firms, while a profit warning from  Sony Corp. looked set to push the market lower.
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These mulitstar stocks have had big price cuts in the past month.
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The Nikkei average fell 1.2 percent by  midsession on Friday as broad-ranged selling was prompted by  Thursday's fall on Wall Street due to concern about high oil  prices.
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Share prices closed broadly lower in Tokyo overnight, led by declines in commodity price-sensitive stocks. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average fell for the first time in four trading days, closing down 77.
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Business & money: Deal forced to be scrapped as the fallout from the sub-prime markets continues to spread
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The Nikkei fell 1 percent by midsession  on Wednesday as investors sold a broad range of shares,  extending losses from the day before when poor Japanese  industrial output data put a damper on the economy's outlook.
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(InfoWorld) - Bill Gates sold over 20 million shares of Microsoft Corp. stock last month, with just around 2 million of the shares affected by global stock market turmoil. The company chairman sold nearly 4 million shares of Microsoft stock in the last three days of February, including 1.87 million shares last Monday, 990,000 shares on Tuesday, and 1 million shares on Wednesday, according to filings to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The Tuesday share sale coincided with one of the worst days global stock markets have seen in years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 416 points on the day to end at 12,216. Microsoft dropped 4.1 percent on the day to end at US$27.87. The company is part of the Dow index. Market watchers blame the global equities turmoil on everything from a sell-off in Shanghai shares to fears of an end to the carry-trade, a term referring to Japan. For years, investors have been able to borrow money in Japan for nearly free because the nation has maintained near-zero interest rates. Borrowers have then taken that money and invested it elsewhere, including in global stock and precious metals markets. The fear is that Japan may start hiking interest rates, causing investors to sell assets bought using their borrowed yen to repay their obligations. Japan has maintained low interest rates for years, a measure aimed at bolstering its economy. No one has blamed the technology sector for the sell-off, but share sales by major figures do attract attention from people trying to gauge the direction markets might take. Gates is considered an insider due to his position at Microsoft, and therefore has to file notices to the SEC when he sells shares, leaving a public record of transactions. He collected over half a billion dollars from the February share sale, according to the SEC filings. The filings do not say why Gates sold the shares. After the share sale, however, he remains the largest shareholder in Microsoft with 917.5 million shares, or around 9.2 percent of shares outstanding.
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Citigroup's  $10.8 billion offer to  buy Nikko Cordial Corp. (8603.T) undervalues the Japanese  brokerage, major Nikko shareholder Southeastern Asset  Management said on Friday.
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Citigroup  is considering selling  Nikko Cordial Corp's (8603.T) principal finance arm if it  acquires the scandal-hit Japanese brokerage group, the Nikkei  business daily said on Sunday.