Pakistanis angry over detentions in Times Sq. case Monday, May 24, 2010
ISLAMABAD – Relatives of three men detained by Pakistan for alleged links to the suspect in the attempted Times Square bombing say the men are innocent.
They
AFP - Thursday, August 6TAIPEI (AFP) - - Taiwan's Beijing-friendly government on Wednesday denied boycotting an Australian film festival amid a row over the e
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a double blow on Thursday as a senior party ally in east German
Minister seeks closure of anti-Berlusconi websites Wednesday, December 16, 2009
ROME (AFP) - – The Italian government moved Tuesday to close down Internet sites encouraging further violence against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who
By ELAINE KURTENBACH,AP Business Writer AP - Wednesday, March 18SHANGHAI - Asia's stock market rally seemed to be running out of steam Wednesday, despite an
Navigation
Primary Navigation
Home
Singapore
Asia Pacific
World
Business
Entertainment
Sports
Technology
Top Stories
Most Popular
Secondary Navigation
Search
Search:
Japanese megabanks 'in red in last quarter'
AFP - 2 hours 46 minutes ago
TOKYO (AFP) - - Japanese megabanks Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Financial appear to have experienced a group net loss in the three months to December due to a plunging stock market, a major daily reported Saturday.
It would be the first quarterly net loss for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group since its establishment in 2005 through the merger of Mitsubishi Tokyo Financial Group and UFJ Holdings, the Mainichi Shimbun said.
Mizuho Financial Group was also in the red in the previous quarter to September.
But Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, the other of Japan's top three banks, appears to have remained in the black as the value of its stock holdings is low, the daily said.
Japanese financial giants have been relatively resilient to the global credit crunch that has pushed banks worldwide to the brink of bankruptcy, but they are now being squeezed by weak markets and a recession at home.
Japanese share prices have sharply dipped since October as the global financial crisis worsened. The key Nikkei average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange ended the year at 8,859.56 points, down more than 2,000 from the end of September.
The group net losses of Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho Financial in October-December are both estimated at "several tens of billions of yen," the daily quoted unnamed senior officials of the companies as saying.
Ten billion yen is worth some 111 million dollars at the current exchange rate.
As a result, the two megabanks are seen likely to revise downward their earnings forecasts for the full financial year to March 2009 unless Japanese share prices recover, the Mainichi said.
Mitsubishi UFJ's annual net profit is forecast to drop 65 percent to 220 billion yen in the year. Mizuho Financial expects a drop of 19 percent in its annual net profit to 250 billion yen.
Sumitomo Mitsui forecasts its net profit for the year to plunge 61 percent to 180 billion yen.
Email Story
IM Story
Printable View
Blog This
Recommend this article
Average (0 votes)
Sign in to recommend this article »
Most Recommended Stories »
Enlarge Photo
A man walks past a logo of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc (MUFJ), in Tokyo. Japanese megabanks MUFJ and Mizuho Financial appear to have experienced a group net loss in the three months to December due to a plunging stock market, a major daily reported
Most Popular – Top Stories
Viewed
Rare Bugatti untouched for 50 years could fetch millions: report
World's oldest person dies at the age of 115
Vogue editor biggest fashion flop of 08: Time
Paulson blames global imbalances for credit crisis: report
US steel industry in collapse, eyes government aid: report
View Complete List »
Search:
Home
Singapore
Asia Pacific
World
Business
Entertainment
Sports
Technology
Top Stories
Most Popular