Japan investors take hit from Livedoor
“They’ve turned into pieces of trash,” said the 29-year old bar owner, sometimes actor and even less frequent trader. Stock trading and mutual funds still aren’t as widespread here as in the United States and other industrialized nations.
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Record Revenues Lift Bear Stearns' Profit
Wall Street firm Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. said Wednesday that its earnings rose 5 percent from a year ago, based on strength in its institutional stock trading business.
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TSE suspends all stock trading for 1st time ever on system failure
TOKYO — The Tokyo Stock Exchange suspended all stock trading Tuesday for the first time ever in its history due to a computer glitch, hurting investor trust in Asia's biggest market at a time when it enjoys active transactions on optimism over the outlook of the Japanese economy.
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How to Trade Foreign Stocks
Clean tech is global, with more public companies headquartered in Europe and Asia than in the United States. And some of the leaders—like Danish wind turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems and German solar panel giant Q-Cells—don’t even list their shares on U.S. exchanges.
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