( ) -q-24- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “e-commerce giant Alibaba.” Japanese investor SoftBank Group has sunk into a deep loss for the October-to-December quarter. [CutID: <Cuts> JAPAN-SOFTBANK-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 24s Title: JAPAN-SOFTBANK-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: e-commerce giant Alibaba] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Various uncertainties have slammed Japanese companies recently, such as soaring material costs and rising interest […]
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Japan’s SoftBank logs $5.9B loss as tech investments tumble
( ) -q-24- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “e-commerce giant Alibaba.”
Japanese investor SoftBank Group has sunk into a deep loss for the October-to-December quarter.
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Out-cue: e-commerce giant Alibaba]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Various uncertainties have slammed Japanese companies recently, such as soaring material costs and rising interest rates.
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VERBATIM: The company was slammed by the global plunge in technology shares. The 783 billion yen net loss for the fiscal third quarter, was a reversal from a 29 billion yen profit a year earlier. SoftBank invests in hundreds of companies, including mobile carrier SoftBank, web services provider Yahoo, vehicle-for-hire company Didi and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.