Japanese Banking Group Mizuho Reports Dip
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Mizuho, one of Japan&#39;s four biggest banking groups, reported Monday that group net profit for the first fiscal half fell 8.4 percent from the previous year, despite some progress in getting rid of bad debts.
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The Nikkei dipped 0.08 percent on Friday  as some exporters like Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (7267.T) fell on  concern of a slowdown in the U.S. economy, but losses were  curbed as property stocks extended gains on hopes of rising  rents.
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Japan&#39;s Nikkei 225 average is down more than two percent by mid-morning Monday after the dollar&#39;s tumble against the yen hit tech firms and exporters.
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Japanese stocks declined Friday morning, extending losses from the previous session as traders remained wary ahead of a statement from the Bank of Japan governor later in the day.
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The pace of Japan's economic growth is slowing due to a big drop in housing investment and the slowdown is likely to persist for some time, a senior central bank official said in a speech Thursday.
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Japan's central bank left its super-low interest rates unchanged for a 12th straight meeting Thursday due to concerns that the US subprime loan crisis and a housing slump will curb economic growth.
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Two of Japan's big four banks said they had got over the worst of the bad loan problems overhanging their business and the economy but they also posted lower first-half earnings as loan demand remained soft.
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The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Thursday in its first unanimous decision since June, after a drop in business confidence signaled that companies were bracing for slower growth.
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The Nikkei average fell 0.62 percent on   Wednesday as Softbank Corp. 9984.T and Yahoo Japan Corp.   4689.T declined on a bearish broker report from Credit   Suisse, while recent gainers such as Canon Inc. 7751.T also   came under pressure.
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Business confidence at Japan&#39;s large manufacturers in the October-December quarter worsened for the first time in 21 months, and the outlook for next quarter is even dimmer, according to the
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TOKYO  â The Bank of Japan left its policy rate target unchanged at 0.5 percent on Friday as expected, with turbulence in financial markets and fears about a United States recession heightening concerns over the economic outlook.
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Tokyo stocks are seen opening lower on   Monday after Wall Street fell on worries about a U.S. economic   slowdown, and with top bank shares likely avoided amid caution   over the U.S. business of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc.   (MUFG) 8306.T.
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Japanese government bond futures edged up  on Wednesday on a dip in the stock market as investors awaited  more clues on whether the Bank of Japan will lift interest  rates later this month.
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Three Japanese banks that have been asked  to provide $5 billion each to a subprime support fund planned  by U.S. banks have balked at what they see as an unreasonably  high figure, the Nikkei business daily reported on Saturday.
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Japan has said that corporate investment slowed from its recent breakneck pace in the three months to September, raising fears of a downgrade in economic growth for the quarter.
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TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Japan&#39;s largest bank Mizuho Financial Group and third-largest bank Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group said Monday their first-half net profit fell from a year earlier, but both achieved their goals of halving bad loan ratios ahead of schedule
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The Nikkei average dipped 0.37 percent by  the close on Wednesday as some major banks, including UFJ  Holdings Inc., reversed gains made after Japan's state  turnaround body approved a restructuring plan for troubled  retailer Daiei Inc.