The Japan TimesNomura’s CEO has vowed to build on the company’s earnings revival by strengthening businesses across the board, ranging from wealth to asset management and dealmaking. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/02/companies/nomura-wealth-asset-management/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nomura #brokerages #wealth
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t have sold off Nvidia shares if his company had unlimited money to bankroll its next investments in artificial intelligence, which include a big bet on OpenAI. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/02/companies/softbank-nvidia-stake-sale-son/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #masayoshison #nvidia #ai #softbank #openai #saudiarabia
Chinese vaccine makers are caught in a steep downturn as intensifying competition pushes prices lower and erodes their profits. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/02/companies/china-flu-shots-vaccine-makers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #pharmaceuticals #china #drugmakers #covid19vaccines #vaccinations
Japan’s largest steel producer will shortlist two or three states for construction of a major new plant in the U.S. and make a final decision on its location in early 2027. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/02/companies/nippon-steel-interview-us-plant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #nipponsteel #ussteel #takahiromori
Netflix has made a mostly cash offer to buy TV and film group Warner Bros. Discovery in a deal that could remake the U.S. media landscape. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/02/companies/netflix-warner-bros-discovery/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #netflix #warnerbrosdiscovery #streaming
Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)The cost of cheap sweetness: Chocolate still depends on child labor https://www.politico.eu/article/chocolate-child-labor-slavery-west-africa/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Certificationandstandards #Foodlabelingandpackaging #Humantrafficking #Sustainability #duediligence #Supplychains #Transparency #Agriculture #Humanrights #Laborrights #Regulation #Companies #Forestry #Industry #farmers #Omnibus #Opinion #Africa #Rights #Labor #Trade
The 2025 Osaka Expo has boosted earnings at major railroad operators in western Japan, with four out of six major railroads set to surpass profit projections. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/01/companies/osaka-expo-rail-operator-earnings-up/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #rail #jrwest #osakametro #osakaexpo
Soh Kam Yung"[T]he Stock Exchange of Singapore (SES) announced that all trading on the stock market would be suspended from Thursday, 2 December 1985, until further notice. The stock markets, both in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, were shut for three days.
What caused the shutdown was the collapse of Pan-Electric Industries, or Pan-El, leading to economic, social and reputational costs to Singapore."
"Sparked by a box of old family documents, Jan Beránek embarked on an eight-year quest that brought him from a small Czech village to modern Singapore to uncover the life of his granduncle who died during the Japanese invasion of Singapore.
[...]
My granduncle Silvestr went to Singapore at a very young age, with a mission to establish and develop the business of the Bata Shoe Company in Southeast Asia."
Invictus Investment Partners, a new Japan-focused hedge fund, is tapping alumni of Citadel and Point72 Asset Management to become its chief investment officer and chief executive. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/01/companies/japan-focused-hk-hedge-fund-new-hire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #hedgefunds #investments #stocks #tse #invictusinvestmentpartners
