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 …