* Japan factory output growth slows as stimulus impact wanes * China output still strong, new export orders up for 4th mth * Australia retail sales beat forecasts, may hasten rate hike * New Zealand...
TOKYO, Sept 30 - Housing starts in Japan fell 38.3 percent in August from a year earlier, government data showed on Wednesday, a bigger drop than a median market forecast for a 31.8 percent slide....
SEOUL, Sept 28 - South Korea has resumed limited pork exports to Japan for the first tim in five years, after its neighbour banned the trade after outbreaks of foot-and-mouth and hog cholera diseases in...
TOKYO, Sept 25 - U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and Japan's Eisai said on Friday they will co-promote Pfizer's Lyrica nerve pain treatment in Japan once Tokyo regulators approve the drug which is already available in the...
* Benchmark 5-yr iTraxx Japan index plunges due to reshuffle * Main driver is exit of Aiful, Takefuji from index TOKYO, Sept 24 - The benchmark index for the Japanese corporate credit default swap market...
Sep.22 MetalBiz--With the development of emerging economies, Japan large-scaled steel enterprise-JFE, began to shift the export strategy and planed to expand the steel markets...
Sep.22 MetalBiz--Most of S.Korea CRC mills ended the price negotiation on CRC base material for Q4 with Japan steel mills recently. The settled price was about U.S. $560 per...
SEOUL, Oct 21 - A united Korea -- combining Asia's fourth biggest economy with one of its poorest -- could surpass that of Germany or Japan in economic might in the next 30-40 years, U.S....
Sep.18 MetalBiz--Ansteel previously decided that it would decrease the HRC price export to Japan for Nov. delivery by U.S. $30 per ton to U.S.$565 per ton (CFR). Source from a trader in Japan noted that...
Sep. 16 MetalBiz--According to the related source, in the recent days, the scrap supply in Tokyo Bay Japan tends to be tight, which led to No. 2 remelting scrap price in Tokyo...