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Economic news(2024/12/30)


Kyoto   Hakone

Stock prices set to record high in 2024, year-end closing price exceeds bubble period

2024-12-30 19:14:00
On the Tokyo Stock Exchange on the 30th, the last trading day of the year, the Nikkei Stock Average closed at 39,894.54 yen, the highest year-end closing price to date, surpassing the price recorded in 1989 during the bubble period.

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Financial Industry in 2024 Serious Scandals Continue... Stock Prices Hit Record Highs

2024-12-30 18:08:00
This year, the financial industry has been hit by a series of scandals that have shaken trust, including insider trading and theft of money and valuables from safe deposit boxes. Some have pointed out that the problem lies not only in the morals of individual employees, but also in the organization's failure to detect the fraud, and the industry as a whole will be called into question in order to restore trust.

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Resona Bank's personal online banking glitch: Cyber ​​attack?

2024-12-30 17:01:00
Resona Bank has revealed that since the evening of the 28th, it has been experiencing intermittent problems with its personal internet banking services, making it difficult to connect. The bank is investigating the cause and is proceeding with recovery efforts, as it believes that this may be a cyber attack in which a large amount of data was sent.

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Financial Industry in 2024 Serious Scandals Continue... Stock Prices Hit Record Highs

2024-12-30 16:38:00
This year, the financial industry has been hit by a series of scandals that have shaken trust, including insider trading and theft of money and valuables from safe deposit boxes. Some have pointed out that the problem lies not only in the morals of individual employees, but also in the organization's failure to detect the fraud, and the industry as a whole will be called into question in order to restore trust.

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Stock price: Year-end closing price 39,894.54 yen, the highest since the bubble era

2024-12-30 15:39:00
On the Tokyo Stock Exchange on the 30th, the last trading day of the year, the Nikkei Stock Average closed at 39,894.54 yen, the highest year-end closing price to date, surpassing the price recorded in 1989 during the bubble period.

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Serious scandals in the financial industry one after another... Some point out that this is an "organizational problem"

2024-12-30 14:11:00
This year, the financial industry has been hit by a series of scandals that have shaken trust, including insider trading and theft of money and valuables from safe deposit boxes. Some have pointed out that the problem lies not only in the morals of individual employees, but also in the organization's failure to detect the fraud, and the industry as a whole will be called into question in order to restore trust.

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Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee steals money and valuables from safe deposit box; stolen goods sold at multiple locations

2024-12-30 11:24:00
In a case where a Mitsubishi UFJ Bank employee stole several billion yen worth of valuables from a safe deposit box, it was revealed through an interview with an investigator that the employee took the precious metals and other items stolen from the safe deposit box to multiple buying stores and sold them. The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating the possibility that the employee invested the money from the sales.

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