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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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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Japan&#39;s stock benchmarks fell, paced by companies tied to overseas sales such as Kyocera Corp. and Canon Inc., as a drop in US shares underscored concern earnings growth in the world&#39;s largest economy is slowing.
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Subprime losses at Japan's Mizuho Financial Group Inc  may have ballooned to as much as $2.8 billion, potentially forcing the bank to cut its full-year forecast for a second time, newspaper reports said on Wednesday.
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Confidence in business conditions at major Japanese companies fell from three months ago dampening expectations of an interest rate increase and clouding the outlook for the worldâs No. 2 economy.
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Tokyo's Nikkei average started a  holiday-shortened week slightly down on Tuesday, falling for a  fourth straight session as brokers and banks fell again on  recent domestic data showing signs of a slowdown in some key  areas.
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Japanese firms cut capital spending by  4.9 percent in April-June from a year earlier, data showed on  Monday, confounding forecasts and adding to views that the Bank  of Japan will hold off from raising rates this month.
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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.
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Mizuho Financial Group Inc., Japan&#39;s biggest bank by assets, plans to partner Citigroup Inc.&#39;s Japanese investment banking venture to grab equity underwriting business from Nomura Holdings Inc.
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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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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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Stocks in Asia resumed their decline  on Monday, led by banks like Japan's Mizuho, while the dollar  hovered near a 3-year low against the yen after a proposed U.S.  stimulus package did little to soothe fears the world's top  economy will tip into a recession.
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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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Japan's Nikkei average ended down half a  percent on Friday as caution set in ahead of U.S. jobs data due  later in the day, with banks and drug firms succumbing to  profit-taking.
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Japanese shares fell Friday after Japanese banks reported larger-than-expected losses due to the subprime mortgage crisis. A slump in China's Shanghai Stock Exchange also weighed on Tokyo trade.
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Japan's Nikkei average was down 0.19  percent by mid-morning on Tuesday, the first trading day of  2005, as investors grabbed profits in Mizuho Financial Group  and other major banks that had made strong gains late last  year.
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Japan's Nikkei average fell for a fifth  straight day to hit a one-month closing low on Wednesday as key  exporters and techs such as Kyocera Corp. dropped on renewed  caution about the country's economic outlook.