Japan’s Top 20 Earnings Stories of 2007 at Nikkei Net

Nikkei has published a list of the top 20 Earnings stories for the year in eight categories:

Nikkei Net is Japan's top business news site.

Regular readers here at RSON that check my source will know that I go there a lot to see what's happening and when.

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The top 20 stories in the earnings category

1.	Japan Firms To Pay Out More Than 50% Of Earnings In FY06 (Monday, March 19)
2.	Japan Firms Earned 31% Of Op Profits Overseas In FY06 (Monday, August 20)
3.	Combined Loss At Big Consumer Lenders Seen Topping Y1tln In FY06 (Thursday, April 19)
4.	Sony's Op Profit Seen Skyrocketing Above Y400bn In FY07 (Friday, April 13)
5.	Nikko Cordial Booked Nearly Y17bn Profit Via SPC In FY05 (Thursday, February 1)
6.	4 Big Consumer Lenders Likely Earned Net Profits In 1st Half (Thursday, November 1)
7.	Big Banks All Over The Map In Financial Strength (Thursday, May 24)
8.	Overseas Write-Offs Seen Saddling Mizuho Sec With 1st-Half Loss (Wednesday, October 24)
8.	7 Foreign Brokerages Earned Record Revenues In Japan In FY06 (Wednesday, July 4)
10.	Pachinko-Related Firms Squeezed By Shrinking Market (Friday, September 7)
11.	Softbank's Mobile Gambit Looks Good After 1 Year (Tuesday, May
12.	Language School Nova May Have Had Negative Net Worth Since June (Tuesday, October 30)
13.	ANALYSIS: Toyota Leads World Automakers In Takeover Value (Saturday, May 26)
14.	Softbank Sees Fruit From Y2tln Investment In Cell Phone Ops (Wednesday, May 9)
15.	Bank Interim Earnings Hit By Consumer Finance Ops, Subprime Woes (Thursday, October 25)
16.	Nintendo, Toyota Suppliers Rank High For Raising Profit Outlooks (Wednesday, February 14)
17.	Subprime Crisis May Hit Profits At Export-Reliant Firms (Wednesday, August 22)
18.	Toyota's Interim Op Profit Likely Up 10% To Record Y1.2tln (Tuesday, October 23)
19.	Corporate Profits Being Driven By Demand In Europe, Asia (Wednesday, May 16)
19.	Toyota Likely To Report FY06 Operating Profit of Y2.25tln (Friday, April 20)