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Joel Scheiman ...
  • Pelham Smithers
  • William Nestuk

PSA Today May 7 : Pause before next week's earnings deluge / Money supply growth / Weak mobile gaming figures / New information on Nabtesco – Nikkei +0.09%

Japan Market Comment by Pelham Smithers, Joel Scheiman and William Nestuk
Nikkei ¥29,357.82 (+¥26.45 / +0.09%); Topix ¥1,933.05 (+¥5.65 / +0.29%); ¥/$109.15
Tags: Nintendo (7974 JT), Nippon Steel (5401 JT), Sony (6758 JT), Nidec (6594 JT), Chugai Pharmaceutical (4519 JT), Daiichi Sankyo (4568 JT), Hitachi (6501 JT), Canon (7751 JT), Olympus (7733 JT), AGC (5201 JT), Ricoh (7752 JT), Takashimaya (8233 JT), AI Inside (4488 JT), NTT (9432 JT), Nitto Denko (6988 JT) , JSR (4185 JT), Tokyo Ohka Kogyo (4186 JT), Shin-Etsu Chemical (4063 JT), Showa Denko (4004 JT), Infineon Technologies (IFX GY), Square Enix (9684 JT), Mixi (2121 JT), DeNA (2432 JT), Colopl (3668 JT), Nabtesco (6268 JT)
Main Points
• Wait-and-see market ahead of big earnings week
• Money supply growth continues to accelerate
• Another weak set of results from Japanese mobile gaming firms
• Nabtesco hydraulics, auto doors and railcar equipment
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. 

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Joel Scheiman

Pelham Smithers

William Nestuk

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