News before 2026-10-21

2026-10-21[Earnings Flash] Japan Metropolitan Fund Investment Corporation: Ordinary profit to fall 17% this fiscal year (Kabutan News)

2026-10-21[Essential Guide] Who Are the Winners in the Era of 1.27 Million Companies Without a Designated Successor? 20 Carefully Selected Stocks Related to Business Succession and M&A, Ranking the Entire Value Chain from Intermediaries and Buyers to Consultants and Funds | Japan Individual Stock Due Diligence Center

2026-10-21What is the outlook for 戸田工業 (4100)? An analysis of its future share price based on earnings and business operations

2026-10-21Key November Events for Japanese Stocks: Transition to the New TOPIX Indices and the U.S. Midterm Elections, Explained by a Nomura Securities Strategist

2026-10-21Tokyo FX: Dollar-yen recovery remains sluggish, focus on cross-yen pairs

2026-10-21Earnings Forecast Revision (During Trading Hours) — YAMAZEN CORPORATION (Traders Web)

2026-10-21Begins providing “Kanzen Meshi” (a nutritionally balanced meal product) to people eligible for specific health guidance in Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture

2026-10-21Okano Valve raises earnings forecast, increases year-end dividend to ¥70 (Wealth Advisor)

2026-10-21Dollar-yen remains range-bound despite a turbulent backdrop: concerns over an AI bubble, the BOJ’s rate-hike stance and the outlook for turmoil in French government bonds | Infoseek News

2026-10-21[FX] The limits of intervention to curb yen depreciation and “reinforcement measures”

2026-10-21Snowflake World Tour Tokyo 2026 Event Report: In the Age of AI Agents, the Main Battleground Shifts to “AI-Ready Data”

2026-10-2110 Years Since JR Kyushu's Listing: Loss-Making "Three-Island Company" Transforms Through Real Estate, Establishing a Land Acquisition Team in Tokyo

2026-10-21Multiple Banks Conduct Proof-of-Concept Study on Joint Stablecoin Issuance and Advancing Cross-Border Payments

2026-10-21Special campaign launches to celebrate cumulative sales surpassing 1 million copies!! Volume 9 of “The Banished Reincarnated Aristocrat: Dominating Statecraft with a Dud Skill” goes on sale Friday, 23 October

2026-10-21【Hanshin Umeda Main Store】Morozoff launches Caramelion, a new brand with caramel at its heart! Caramelion’s first permanent store in Japan will open on Wednesday, 18 November, in the Western Confectionery section on Basement Level 1!

2026-10-21APPLIED TECHNOLOGY CO.,LTD., an Autodesk Platinum Partner, launches a service for creating electronic deliverables from InfoWorks ICM pluvial flood analysis results

2026-10-21【From Today】McDonald’s Adds New “Chicken” Products to Its Regular Menu: 3 Burgers and 1 Side Dish 【Details】 (Oricon)

2026-10-21[Collaboration Returns] Desktop Army × CosmicBreak Universal: Collaboration Event Returns on Wednesday, 21 October!

2026-10-21Dollar-yen stuck in the upper ¥157 range, with range-bound trading to continue ahead of the FOMC and Bank of Japan meeting

2026-10-21Regarding 極東証券, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank reported a decrease in its holding [Change Report No. 15]

2026-10-21Trading Volume Change Rate Ranking (10 a.m. hour): Welby, 海帆 and Others

2026-10-21The latest AI solutions from 6 Asian countries come together at World AI Pavilion, accelerating digital transformation for Japanese companies

2026-10-21[Japan Market] Nikkei 225 gains ¥1,300, AI concerns ease after SpaceX results; yen softens

2026-10-21【Analyst Forecast】Plus Alpha, FY ending September 2026 ordinary profit forecast up 0.2% week on week (IFIS Stock Forecasts)

2026-10-21Why Isn’t SUMCO’s Share Price Rising? An Analysis of Its Earnings, Financial Position and Future Prospects

2026-10-21Another dip below $4,000 possible

2026-10-21LECIP HOLDINGS CORPORATION [7213]: Notice Regarding the Disposal of Treasury Shares as Restricted Stock Incentives for Employees, 23 October 2026 (Timely Disclosure): Nikkei Company Information DIGITAL

2026-10-21SORACOM IoT Store launches water-leak monitoring package, begins sales of 旭光電機’s “漏水みはり番”

2026-10-21U.S. Earnings Release Schedule (10/21-10/23): AT&T and Philip Morris Tonight; IBM, Tesla, Meta, Lam Research and Others After the Close

2026-10-21【Analyst Rating】HIROSE ELECTRIC CO., LTD., Neutral rating maintained, target price raised to ¥30,500 (major US securities firm) (IFIS Stock Forecast)

2026-10-21Did Roper Technologies' (ROP) upward earnings estimate revision change its investment story?

2026-10-21BOJ set to determine that inflation has reached 2%, shifting away from its deflation response; policy rate may remain unchanged at October meeting (Sankei Shimbun)

2026-10-21Teledyne (TDY) Q3 2026 Earnings Call: Digital Imaging Drives Upward Revision to Full-Year Guidance

2026-10-21Nikkei Average rebounds as semiconductor-related stocks see renewed buying, rising more than ¥1,300 at one point / Lunchtime Comment (Fisco)

2026-10-21Prestige International plans new call center in Imizu City, expects to create 500 jobs, to build on land adjacent to existing facility (Toyama Television)

2026-10-21[Follow-up] KDDI, the parent company, comments: “We take the Mongolian grassland fire extremely seriously” (Alterna)

2026-10-21JR Kyushu Announces Second Phase of “Railway Update Plan” | Railway News | Posted 17 October 2026 | Railway Fan (railf.jp)

2026-10-21For Tomorrow’s Stock Market: CDS on Alert Over AI Debt Risk (Published 21 October 2026)

2026-10-21Tokyo FX: Dollar-yen slightly lower, dragged down by weakness in cross-yen pairs

2026-10-21HUAWEI FreeBuds Neo with world-class noise cancellation delivers immersive high-resolution audio, launching Wednesday, 21 October

2026-10-21Morning Session Comments No. 9: TWOSTONE, Ryohin Keikaku, Sansan, NexStage, Fuji Die, Kanaden (Traders Web)

2026-10-21BOJ to Assess Whether 2% Inflation Target Has Been Reached at October Meeting; Could Have Taken 14 Years to Achieve

2026-10-21[Analyst Forecast] JEOL, ordinary profit forecast for the fiscal year ending March 2027 down 0.8% from the previous week (IFIS Stock Forecast)

2026-10-21Earnings Negative-Impact Stocks at the Open: ALINCO, SUPER TOOL (Announced on 20 October) (Kabutan News)

2026-10-21Welby—sharply higher on business alliance with TISI for local government and medical institution businesses; subsidiary also enters into capital alliance

2026-10-21【Mebuki FG at 10】Regional development is its foundation

2026-10-21パーソルビジネスプロセスデザイン launches an AI-powered recruitment outsourcing service (TECH+)

2026-10-21DC Motor Control Equipment Market Forecast Through 2035: Demand from Industrial Automation and Robotics Drives Growth — News and Statistics

2026-10-21Scheduled earnings releases tomorrow: DISCO, ORIX F and 5 other companies (21 October) (Kabutan News)

2026-10-21TSE at 10 a.m.: Nikkei average narrows gains as investors sell into the rebound; Advantest also pares gains