SoftBank Group Corp

SoftBank (OTCMKTS:SFTBY) will host its 2020 annual meeting of shareholders today. The shareholder meeting comes at an interesting time for the company.

SoftBank (OTCMKTS:SFTBY) has opened discussions with Deutsche Telekom (OTCMKTS:DTEGY) about selling some of its shares in T-Mobile (NYSE:TMUS).

Today, SoftBank Group (OTCMKTS:SFTBY) announced that Jack Ma resigned. He’s the co-founder of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA).

SoftBank stock closed Tuesday at $21.76. At this price, the stock has pulled up nearly 80% from its pandemic lows of $12.20 reached in March.

Last month, Dish Network set out to raise cash through a rights offering. Dish completed the rights offering and raised about $1 billion in cash.

Dish stock jumped after Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen mentioned financial support from SoftBank in the T-Mobile–Sprint merger trial. We’ll look at what this support means to Dish.

In December, Amazon (AMZN) stock opened above $1,800 but dropped by 3% during the week to close at $1751.6. In addition, its YTD returns dropped to 14%.

In 2017, Softbank (SFTBY) created a pool of $100 billion to promote new business ventures. The company provided seed funding to entrepreneurs worldwide.

Last week, CNBC said that WeWork (WE) is firing 2,400 people. Supposedly, this will “create a more efficient organization.”

The SEC is inquiring about the possibility of WeWork’s non-compliance with SEC rules. There are enough red flags here to demand investors’ attention.

The global telecom industry is undergoing a rapid transformation, especially with the advent of 5G technology. We look at the telecom space’s key trends.

Japanese conglomerate Softbank (SFTBY) released its Q2 earnings today, and the results took a big hit from Uber and WeWork.

A few hours ago, Reuters reported that WeWork’s board would meet today to discuss financing proposals from Softbank and JPMorgan Chase.

Peloton stock, which lost 8.9% on September 26 on its public debut, was trading 4% lower on September 27 at $24.73 as of 10:36 AM ET.

After losing 11.4% between September 1 and September 20, Slack stock crashed 4.8% yesterday to take its September losses to 15.7%.

The We Company has pulled the plug on WeWork’s IPO. Are prospective investors worried that Adam Neumann will end up being another Elon Musk?

WeWork, which was expected to go public this month, has suspended its IPO at least until next month after a lackluster response from potential investors.

Today, Slack (WORK) stock has been getting crushed after opening marginally higher. At 12:44 PM ET, the stock was trading at $24.4, down 10.9%.

Reports indicate that WeWork is looking to cut its valuation by over 50% to ease its upcoming IPO. WeWork was privately valued at $47 billion in January.

Facebook (FB) has joined with Naspers (NPSNY) and former Vodafone (VOD) CEO Arun Sarin to inject $125 million of fresh capital into Meesho.

WeWork is looking to raise about $3.5 billion with its IPO, making it the second-largest biggest IPO this year after Uber’s IPO in May.

On August 9, Yahoo! Finance reported that Uber (UBER) is imposing a hiring freeze for tech talent. The same day, Uber stock ended 6.8% lower.

Softbank Vision Fund, Softbank’s $97 billion megafund, was a star performer in its first quarter of fiscal 2020. Let’s see why.

What do Berkshire Hathaway’s (BRK.B) Warren Buffet and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son have in common?

On Friday, Softbank (SFTBY) announced the launch of AI-focused Vision Fund 2. The fund is expected to start with a capital of $108 billion.

Armed with the largest tech-focused fund in the world, Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank (SFTBY) is disrupting the investing space.

Slack’s current investors include SoftBank, Andreessen Horowitz and Social Capital, and others. They might look to benefit from the direct listing.

Food-delivery company Door Dash just raised $600 million in a Series G funding.

Uber announced last week that it had forged a deal with three Japanese companies to raise $1 billion for its autonomous vehicle unit.

Ride-hailing giant Uber is set to spend $3.1 billion to have full ownership of Middle-East rival Careem.

GRUB has now fallen more than 50% since hitting an all-time high of $149.35 in September 2018.

SouthEast Asian ride-hailing company Grab became the latest addition to SoftBank’s (SFTBY) Vision Fund.

Stiff competition from local competitors has led to steep losses for ride-hailing giant Uber over the years.

SoftBank-backed (SFTBY) Uber, which is slated to go public later this year, announced its fourth-quarter earnings results on February 15.

Last year, Alibaba (BABA) made a big bet on China’s local consumer services industry with its acquisition of online food delivery provider Ele.me in a transaction that valued the business at $9.5 billion.

Facebook (FB) has been trying to come up with a mobile payment service for WhatsApp in India (EPI) for quite some time.

NVIDIA (NVDA) stock has had a dream run in the last three years. However, the last couple of months have been bad for the company’s stock.

Baidu (BIDU) has partnered up to introduce its Apolong self-driving minibus in Japan next year.

In June, ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies completed 10 billion trips, including rides and deliveries through Uber Eats.

Starting this month, Sprint (S) has a new CEO, Michel Combes. Sprint hired Combes in January as its CFO.

Investor flows in high yield bond funds were positive for the third successive week last week, but their volume fell sharply.

Almost all holdings from the financial sector have contributed negatively to the VPACX so far in 2016.

The SunAmerica Japan Fund – Class A (SAESX) fell a sharp 17% in the first four months of 2016, making it the second-worst performer among the nine funds in this review.

Industrials, consumer discretionary, healthcare, and consumer staples form the core of HJPNX. These four sectors combine to form 72% of the portfolio.

From a purely net asset value return standpoint, the Fidelity Pacific Basin Fund (FPBFX) was among the top three funds in its peer group in the one-year period ending March 31, 2016, as well as in 1Q16.

The MFS International Growth Fund’s standard deviation, or the volatility of returns, in the one-year period until February 29 was 15.3%.

In terms of NAV (net asset value), the Fidelity Pacific Basin Fund (FPBFX) was the best-performing fund among the nine we’ll be looking at in this series.

The T. Rowe Price Japan Fund (PRJPX) is well diversified with 78 holdings as of December 2015. It was managing assets worth $330.08 million at the end of December.

According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japanese housing starts fell 1.3% in December YoY as compared to a rise of 1.7% in November.

The target inflation rate set by the B0J (Bank of Japan) stands at 2.0%. However, the December inflation is much lower than the target inflation rate.

The World Bank noted that the slow growth rate of emerging and developing countries came along a slowdown in global trade and a rise in financial volatility.

The oil and gas industry provided a return of -1.6% on December 31. The continuous fall in crude oil prices dragged down the oil and gas industry’s performance.

According to Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs & Communications, the unemployment rate rose to 3.3% in November 2015, as compared to 3.1% in October 2015 and 3.5% in November 2014.

Household income in Japan fell 1.8% YoY (year-over-year) in November, despite rises in new orders and production levels.

With an increase in food prices by 2.9%, Japan’s CPI remained relatively unchanged on a YoY basis in November, recording the same increase of 0.3% seen in October 2015.

On Monday, December 7, 2015, the stocks at the top of the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ) were Amada Holdings, Mixi, and TDK.

On November 18, 75% of the portfolio holdings of the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ) closed above their 100-day moving averages—up from 66% on November 17.

For investors interested in international mutual funds, the next step is to evaluate the investment style, as well as risk and return metrics like the Sharpe ratio and standard deviation.

An analysis of the iShares MSCI Japan ETF will tell us about more about its Volatility, showing the fluctuation in periodic returns from average returns.

The iShares MSCI Japan ETF (EWJ) fell 0.08% from the previous day to close at $12.50 on October 26 ahead of the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy review on Friday, October 30.

The Voya Japan TOPIX Index Portfolio fell by 6.7% in September 2015 from the previous month.

Liquidity risk has fallen from levels seen during the financial crisis of 2008. Since 2011, liquidity risk in the corporate bond market has decreased.

High-yield bond issuance fell in 3Q15 compared to 2Q15, with July and August seeing muted issuance activity. Both of these months saw the least issuance in 2015 year-to-date.

The T. Rowe Price Japan Fund’s (PRJPX) total returns for the past one year ended July 24, 2015, stood at 6.8%. Toyota has been the fund’s top holding in the period, forming 4.8% of the portfolio on average.

The total number of holdings in the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (DXJ) is 329, whereas the total is 316 for the Deutsche X-trackers MSCI Japan Hedged Equity ETF (DBJP).

The US leveraged loans market saw an allocation of $16.2 billion in senior loans in the week ending July 31. This was sharply higher than the $9.3 billion priced in the week ended July 24.

Junk bond issuance activity was subdued in the week ended July 31 as issuers remained wary of the volatility in the commodities markets and the fall in Chinese equities.

During the company’s conference call to announce fiscal Q3 earnings, Apple’s management said that there were some unforeseen issues in Japan in fiscal Q3.