Nomura Hires China Research Head From RBS
Nomura Holdings Inc. has nabbed Royal Bank of Scotland’s PLC’s head of China research and China strategist Wendy Liu.
WFC 2 evacuated [updated: all clear]
Live feed via Fox NY of the downtown evacuation of World Financial Center 2 (‘cos of a suspect package) at pixel time. Click image for more:Update: CNBC says it was a...
Eurotrashing, again
Serious equity grief in Milan, where the FTSE MIB fell 5 per cent late afternoon on Tuesday…The index has fallen 15 per cent since the middle of March.Market participants...
The balance sheet recession, charted
Nomura’s Richard Koo has been banging on about the similarities between Japan’s balance sheet recession and the current financial malaise for a long while.His main...
Could CIMB/RBS go the Way of Nomura/Lehman?
An ambitious Asian bank buys a struggling Western bank and runs into trouble later as bankers depart in droves – sound familiar?
Marking shipping to market
Let’s start with four graphs from Nomura. Click to enlarge.With the Baltic Dry index down circa 58 per cent so far this year, Chintan Joshi and team at Nomura have...
Nomura Results: Not as Bad as You May Think?
Companies often unveil nasty results and blame it on the recently departed. But in the case of Nomura Holdings, a surprise may be in store.
Nomura Resignations a New Beginning?
Could this be the start of another new dawn for Nomura Holdings Inc.?
Ex-Lehmanite Bhattal Leaves Nomura
The man who was responsible for saving 3,000 Lehmanites, Jasjit Bhattal, has left Nomura Holdings Inc.
Is Nomura Missing Out on Japan’s Deal Flurry?
Japanese companies are on an overseas shopping spree, according to today’s WSJ. The country has moved up the rankings of biggest cross-border acquirers this year, and now stands third, lagging only the U.S. and U.K. in foreign conquests. Japan ranked tenth last year.
Policymaker potency in the next US crisis: part II
In part one, the appetizer, we quickly looked at whether the US banking sector is stronger than it was in 2008, as Lewis Alexander, the new Nomura chief US economist, argues. On the face of it,...
How much is there left to sell?
European sovereign debt, that is.And the answer is over €500bn, according to Nomura, which has pieced together data from the IMF and national sources to come up with an updated...
