Toshiba Cuts Full-Year Profit Estimate, COO Resigns
Japan's Toshiba (OTC:TOSYY) Corp on Tuesday reported an 87.5% drop in third-quarter operating profit and cut its full-year earnings estimate for a second time. It also said Chief Operating Officer Goro Yanase had resigned over the inappropriate use of entertainment expenses in 2019 when...
Puma Raises Dividend After Record Sales in 2022 But Sees 2023 Profit Falling
Puma (ETR:PUMG) reported record sales and earnings before interest and taxes in 2022 but warned that profit is likely to fall this year as high interest rates and inflation crimp consumer spending. The German sports gear maker, which lost its chief executive Bjørn Gulden...
Volvo Cars Plans Cost Cuts As First-Quarter Profit Drops
Sweden-based automaker Volvo Car Group reported a smaller-than-expected fall in first-quarter operating earnings on Thursday and said while overall demand remained healthy it may still cut costs as the global economy slows down. Volvo Cars, majority-owned by China’s Greely Holding, said operating earnings fell...
Japan outshines Asian Stocks On Tech Strength, Chinese Markets Lag
Japanese stocks moved back towards a 33-year high on Friday, outpacing their Asian peers amid increased optimism over chipmaking stocks, while Chinese markets lagged as investors fretted over slowing economic growth and worsening U.S. ties. Broader Asian stocks also ticked lower in anticipation of...
Pfizer Pledge For More Equal Access to Rsv Shot Faces Hurdles
Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) has pledged to deliver critical new medicines more quickly in low-income nations, but its first such vaccine effort faces hurdles likely to delay distribution in poorer countries by several years, global health officials told Reuters. Pfizer made a commitment on more...
Kim Kardashian seeks Secret of Private Equity Success As Rising Rates Bite
Reality star Kim Kardashian’s arrival at a gathering of the globe’s top deal brokers in Berlin failed to dispel their dark mood as the rising cost of money puts the brakes on the private equity industry. Flanked by bodyguards, Kardashian drew a crowd of...
Miki House Taps ‘Made in Japan’ Appeal For $760 Kids Pyjamas As Home Market Shrinks
Japan's Miki House, a maker of luxury baby and children's goods in a country with ever-fewer births, is looking overseas for both production and customers for products like its 100,000 yen ($760.40) Gold Label brand pyjamas. President Koichi Kimura said the Osaka-based company, which...
Zara Owner Inditex Reports Surge in Annual Profit As Sales Hit Record High
Zara-owner Inditex (BME:ITX) posted a 29% jump in annual profit despite a slowdown in top-line returns in the final quarter, thanks to "historic" growth in sales both in its physical stores and online. The Spanish fast fashion retailer, now helmed by chair Marta Ortega,...
Asian Stocks Flat, Chinese Markets Rise On Recovery Hopes
Asian stocks flat, Chinese markets rise on recovery hopes Most Asian stocks moved little on Monday tracking hawkish comments from Federal Reserve officials, while Chinese markets outperformed as the People’s Bank maintained medium-term lending rates ahead of a swathe of economic readings. China’s Shanghai...
Can HDFC AMC make it Back to The MSCI Index After Abrdn Stake Sale?
Abrdn’s clean-up block trade of a 10.2 percent stake in HDFC AMC will increase the company’s free float market capitalisation but the stock has to rally over 10 percent from the current level to make it back to the MSCI index. “As per the...