By Anton Bridge, Makiko Yamazaki, Ritsuko Shimizu and Miho UranakaTOKYO (Reuters) - Private equity giant Carlyle is in talks with Japan’s Makino Milling Machine as a potential white knight buyer to counter a $1.81 billion hostile takeover bid from Nidec, four people familiar with the matter said. The sources declined to be named as the information is not public.The battle to take the machine too ...
By Kevin BucklandTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average rose 1% on Friday to clock its best week in three months, as investors turned more hopeful that U.S. President Donald Trump would be able to broker trade deals with some of its top trading partners, including Japan.The Nikkei touched a two-week high of 34,758.97 before ending the day up 1.03% at 34,730.28, despite somewhat muted tra ...
Investing.com – Japan stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Real Estate, Banking and Textile sectors led shares higher.At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 added 0.72%.The best performers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (TYO:4519), which rose 17.54% or 1,243.00 points to trade at 8,328.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Sumitomo Dainippon ...
By Trevor HunnicuttWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signaled a potential end to the tit-for-tat tariff hikes between the U.S. and China that shocked markets, and that a deal over the fate of social media platform TikTok may have to wait."I don’t want them to go higher because at a certain point you make it where people don’t buy," Trump told reporters about tariffs ...