We ran some numbers over the weekend, comparing the long-term returns for various stock markets. The table below shows how the S&P500 has substantially under-performed many other markets on a one, five, and even ten-year horizon. Yet interestingly, despite the market downturn, whereby we are still well below the S&P500's all-time high, the 20- and 30-year S&P performance hasn't been all...
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares moved higher in early Tuesday action, following gains on Wall Street, with trading firms among the leading advancers. The Nikkei 225 Average rose by 1.3% to 9,933.80, and the broader Topix was at 878.42, up 0.9%. Trading house Mitsui & Co. added 2.9%, Marubeni Corp. climbed 2%, and Mitsubishi Corp. was up 1.6%. In South Korea, the Kospi climbed 1.2% in early...
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) News, Topix and other news search services have replaced the morning newspaper for many consumers, but one titan in the media industry won’t have any of it. Rupert Murdoch, CEO of News Corporation, recently commented to one its news channels that he might remove News Corp. paper’s content from Google’s index [...]
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japan's Nikkei 225 Average fell by 0.3% to 9,764.99, and the Topix was at 869.07, down 0.6% Monday morning in Tokyo as financial shares declined, with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. down 1.6%, and Aozora Bank Ltd. losing 0.9%. But consumer finance firms moved higher, with Aiful Corp. up 0.8% and Takefuji Corp. gaining 4.3%. In South Korea, the Kospi climbed 0.2%, while...
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japan's Nikkei 225 Average climbed 1.1% to 9,825.76 and the Topix was at 878.18, up 0.4% Friday morning in Tokyo, with NEC Corp. among the biggest gainers, up 6.1%. The company announced the issuance of new shares as part of a move to help reduce fixed costs by 290 billion yen ($3.2 billion) in the fiscal year. Panasonic Corp.'s stock was up 0.4% as it launched its tender for...
People just like you make Waco News on Topix better every day. [1] A Waco High graduate, convicted of beating and shooting an East Texas man to death more than a decade ago, is scheduled Thursday to be the State’s twentieth execution of the year. [...] The suspected gunman behind the deadly shooting Thursday at Fort [...]
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares traded slightly lower early Thursday, with the Nikkei 225 Average down 0.3% at 9,813.82, and the broader Topix nearly flat at 881.80. Shares of Sanyo Electric Co. dropped 12%, leading the losses and contributing to weakness in the benchmark index a day after reports that Panasonic Corp. will launch its previously announced tender offer for Sanyo this week at...
I interviewed Chris Tolles, CEO of the online news portal Topix, on his predictions for how video will mature into the local landscape, and its impact for audiences and businesses. The following interview took place at the Chicago Interactive Marketing Association’s 7th Semiannual Interactive Marketing Survey, where Chris was one of the featured panelists. Sorry in [...] This is a post from ReelSEO...
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares edged lower in early trading Wednesday in Tokyo, with financials leading the declines. Japan's Nikkei 225 Average fell 0.1% to 9,788.81, and the Topix shed 0.4% to 876.65, with Aozora Bank Ltd. down 3.5% and Shinsei Bank Ltd. losing 3.2%. But some auto shares were on the rise ahead of financial results from Nissan Motor Co. . Nissan's stock rose 0.6%, and Mazda...
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Topix, the largest news community on the web, today announced the availability of the Topix community conduit. Built on the Conduit platform, the Topix browser add-on is a powerful application that delivers personalized news for users directly in the browser and improves user retention for the company. Topix will also take advantage of the Conduit Marketplace to...
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares headed sharply lower in early trading Monday in Tokyo in the wake of Wall Street's Friday's tumble, with exporters among the loss leaders as the yen strengthened against the U.S. dollar. Japan's Nikkei 225 Average fell 2.9% to 9,743.02, and the Topix shed 2.1% to 875.49, with Nissan Motor Co. falling 3.7%, Nikon Corp. down 3.8%, and Sony Corp. dropping 4.7%....
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares headed broadly higher in early trading Friday in Tokyo. Japan's Nikkei 225 Average rose 1.3% to 10,024.03 and the Topix added 1.2% to 892.66 with Olympus Corp. a standout, up 7.5% after the Nikkei reported that the company likely narrowed the projected decline in operating profit for the first half of the fiscal year. But shares of Nintendo were 1.9% lower after...
TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japanese shares suffered broad losses in early Thursday trading in Tokyo, with oil and auto-maker shares among the bigger losers. Japan's Nikkei 225 Average fell by 2% to 9,873.95 -- sinking below 10,000 for the first time since Oct. 9 -- and the Topix lost 1.5% to 875.47, as shares of Inpex Corp. [s:IPXHF] fell 2.5% and Nissan Motor Co. fell 2.9%. But shares of Japan Airlines...
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) -- Japanese and South Korean shares managed gains after opening lower early Monday, while Australian stocks moved to the negative after a decline Friday on Wall Street. The Nikkei 225 Average was recently up 0.3% at 10,308.44 after opening lower, while the Topix rose 0.5% to 906.24. Sony Corp. was among the leading advancers, up 2.25% despite reports its optical disk-drive...
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