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Joel Scheiman ...
  • Lindsay Whipp
  • Nia Dokova
  • Pelham Smithers

PSA Today 18 Oct: End of a choppy week / Sega beats Bandai to top Japan Video Game Charts / Update on Shin-Etsu's strategy / Sansan bounces / Positive updates on Chugai's drugs – Nikkei 225 +0.18% | ¥$149.97

PSA Today Japan Market Comment by Pelham Smithers, Joel Scheiman, Lindsay Whipp and Nia Dokova
Tags: Disco (6146 JT), Socionext (6526 JT), Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (4186 JT), Tokyo Electron (8035 JT), ASML (ASML NA), Chugai Pharmaceutical (4519 JT), PeptiDream (4587 JT), Otsuka Holdings (4578 JT), Microport Scientific (853 HK), Sansan (4443 JT), Yaskawa Electric (6506 JT), Fanuc (6954 JT), Bandai Namco (7832 JT), Sega Sammy (6460 JT), Konami (9766 JT), Nintendo (7974 JT), Game Science (pvt), Paradise (034230 KS), Amazon (AMZN US), Paramount (PARA US), Nexon (3659 JT), Shin-Etsu Chemical (4063 JT), Money Forward (3994 JT), Verastem Oncology (VSTM US), Amgen (AMGN US), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY US), Roche (ROG SW)
Main Points
• Japan shares end choppy week on choppy note as attention remains on Chinese markets
• Sega beats Bandai to top Japan Video Game Charts
• Shin-Etsu’s president discusses strategy
• Sansan bounces on broker upgrade
• Chugai’s positive updates on ovarian cancer and spinal muscular atrophy drugs
Provider
Pelham Smithers Associates Ltd
Pelham Smithers Associates Ltd

Founded in 2009, Pelham Smithers Associates (PSA) provides market intelligence on Asian technology, focusing in particular on Japan. The industries covered by our team of specialists are: consumer electronics, telecomms, pharmaceuticals, internet, electronic parts and materials, automotive technology, retail and capital goods. 

PSA produces both company and sector reports. The focus of PSA’s research is to identify winners and losers as new technologies impact the top and bottom lines of corporations. Critical to our research is the clear explanation of how these new technologies work and how they impact companies and industries. 

The founding partners have worked closely together for twenty years and the team has more than doubled in size since 2012. 

Analysts
Joel Scheiman

Lindsay Whipp

Nia Dokova

Pelham Smithers

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