China is witnessing something most of the world’s major economies haven’t seen in quite some time: rising prices. With growth strong but debt at perhaps 300 percent of gross domestic product, that’s a welcome sign. The danger is that China’s government now hopes inflation will solve its other problems. From 2013 until this year, the GDP deflator, a broad measure ...

Nomura Holdings Inc. may be ruing its international presence right now. It shouldn’t. Low volatility — the bane of global investment banks — caused a slump in fixed-income trading in the three months through September, driving Japan’s biggest brokerage to its first profit decline in five quarters. Net income slid 15 percent to 51.9 billion yen ($457 million), with huge ...

Sharp Corp. shares are up 33 percent since January, and that’s on top of their 116 percent gain last year after Foxconn Technology Group took control. That’s great for investors; not so much for sell-side analysts. They’ve remained stubbornly bearish on the Japanese liquid crystal display maker, so much so that if you had followed the recommendations of all but ...