Nikko investors seen likely to sell to Citigroup
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Citigroup's  $10.8 billion tender offer to buy Nikko Cordial Corp.  looks just sweet enough to convince investors in the Japanese brokerage to sell, analysts said on Wednesday.
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Citigroup raised its offer for Nikko Cordial Corp.  by 26 percent to $13.4 billion on Tuesday after a decision by the Tokyo Stock Exchange not to revoke the brokerage's listing sharply boosted its value.
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Investment banks Morgan Stanley  and Lehman Brothers  are among the bidders for a stake in Japanese house builder Daito Trust Construction Co , which may lead to a multibillion-dollar buyout, sources familiar with the deal said on Thursday.
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Japan's Nikkei average is expected to  extend gains on Thursday as investors keep a healthy appetite  for blue-chip exporters after a fall in oil prices boosted  confidence over the U.S. economy and lifted Wall Street stocks.
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Citigroup  is likely to list its Japan banking unit on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as early as July, an online Japanese magazine said on Friday.
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The company may be hinting at going public.
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TOKYO/NEW YORK  - Citigroup Inc.  bid $10.8 billion for troubled Japanese securities firm Nikko Cordial Corp.  on Tuesday, as the largest U.S. bank looks to return to prominence in a country where it has suffered big losses.
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Citigroup was poised on Tuesday to launch a takeover bid for scandal-hit Japanese brokerage Nikko Cordial Corp. in a deal worth more than $5 billion that would mark the U.S. bank's resurgence in Japan.
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Citigroup  sweetened its takeover  offer for Japan&#39;s Nikko Cordial Corp. (8603.T) on Tuesday,  saying it would pay 1,700 yen a share for the brokerage rather  than the 1,350 yen announced initially.
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U.S. fund Cerberus Capital Management LP  is likely to sell its $474 million stake in Japan's Imperial Hotel Ltd. , the Nikkei business daily reported in its evening edition on Tuesday.
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U.S. and European banks including  Citigroup Inc  and HSBC Holdings PLC  are mulling  sales of parts of their businesses from branches to entire  units in a nod to crunch times ahead, the Wall Street Journal  reported on its Web site on Thursday.
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange  is  likely to decide to delist scandal-hit Japanese brokerage Nikko  Cordial Corp. (8603.T) on Friday, the Nikkei business daily  reported.
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Citigroup is set to launch a tender offer for scandal-hit Japanese brokerage Nikko Cordial Corp., a Nikko spokesman said on Tuesday, a potential $5 billion deal that would mark Citigroup's resurgence in Japan.
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A tumble in U.S. stocks and a stronger yen are likely to pull down Japanese shares on Wednesday, and investors may sell high-tech exporters such as Sony Corp.  that had led the market's recent rally.
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Japan's financial regulator may suspend  or even end some private banking operations at the Japanese  commercial banking unit of U.S. financial services firm  Citigroup Inc., the Nihon Keizai newspaper said on Thursday.
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Citigroup  is set to launch a tender  offer for scandal-hit Nikko Cordial Corp. (8603.T), and the  Japanese brokerage is considering the bid favorably, a Nikko  Cordial spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Citigroup  is likely to list its  Japan banking unit on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as early as  July, an online Japanese magazine said on Friday.