Tokyo - Mizuho Financial Group Inc reported on Thursday a 49.8-per-cent net profit fall in fiscal 2007 from the year before due to a loss related to the US subprime home-loan crisis.
Tokyo - Japan's core machinery orders hit a three-year low in March to 956.8 billion yen (9.11 billion dollars), compared to February, the government said Thursday.
Tokyo - Sony Corp said Wednesday that its net profit nearly tripled to a record in the past fiscal year, which ended in March, as its operating profit rose fivefold from the year before, thanks to
