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Japan Retail Sales Growth Slows, Likely Drag On GDP

Japan's retail sales rose for an 11th consecutive month in September from a year earlier, but the pace of gains slowed from the prior month, in a sign priv...

Japan's Don Quijote Interested In Buying Walmart's Seiyu

Japanese discount retailer Don Quijote Holdings Co Ltd said it would be interested in buying Seiyu if Walmart Inc puts the Japanese supermarket chain up fo...

Japan Retail Sales Pick Up In Positive Sign For Spending

Japan's retail sales climbed more than expected in June due to increased spending on fuel, appliances and cosmetics, in a positive sign that households are...

Walmart Looks To Exit Japan With Seiyu Supermarket Sale: Nikkei

US retailer Walmart Inc. has decided to sell Japanese supermarket chain Seiyu and has already approached major retailers and private equity funds, the Nikk...

FamilyMart Uny Is Said To Mull Sale Of Hong Kong Retail Business

FamilyMart Uny, Japan’s second-largest convenience store operator, is considering a sale of its Hong Kong retail business, people with knowledge of t...

Slumping Japanese Retailers Push Nikkei 225 Toward The Red

The Nikkei 225 Stock Average, Japan’s blue-chip barometer, is on the cusp of erasing its 2017 gains. Angst over terrorist attacks and simmering te...

Asian Big-Box Retailers Set To Grow By 3.5% A Year

Asia's leading big-box (or large-format) grocery retailers are forecast to grow by 3.5% on average per year between 2016 and 2021, according to data from g...

Wal-Mart Sells First Yen Bond In Seven Years As Fund Costs Fall

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has sold yen bonds for the first time in seven years, taking advantage of falling fundraising costs and Japanese demand for securities...