Feb 19, 2021
Shareholders are cheering the record share price of Fast Retailing Co., the operator of casual fashion giant Uniqlo that’s just become the most valuable apparel retailer in the world.
But some other market observers are sounding notes of caution over the stock’s ever-increasing influence on the 225-issue Nikkei average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, as technical changes caused by its recent highs raise its already-outsized impact on the blue-chip gauge.
A fivefold increase in Fast Retailing’s tick size the minimum amount by which the stock can move up or down and a surge in its weighting in the index mean the Nikkei’s rise is increasingly intertwined with that of the casual clothing firm, even as Japanese stocks look to test record bubble-era highs.
Jennifer Lucy Allan
, January 27th, 2021 09:21
Jennifer Lucy Allan enjoys extended versions of Don Cherry tracks, architectural ambience from Romania, French bagpipes, gnarly dancehall and Welsh dub this January
Alina Kalancea
This month I’ve got a lot of music to catch up on, so there’s as much in my intro as there is in the actual reviews. Since Christmas and New Year is the only time I step off the new release train, I spend a month listening to music without a care for when it came out. I stockpiled for a cancelled Christmas by buying all three volumes of Jamaican doo-wop from Death Is Not The End, and a hand stamped paper bag containing five CD-Rs by Tuluum Shimmering, which was the best £10 I’ve spent in a very long time – their latest is my first entry for this month’s column.
December 21, 2020
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IMAGE: Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan directly converted mouse stem cells into the oocyte-like cells shown here using a set of just eight transcription factors. view more
Credit: Kyushu University
In a new study published in the journal
Nature, researchers in Japan report that activating just eight genes for producing gene-controlling proteins is enough to convert mouse stem cells directly into oocyte-like cells that mature and can even be fertilized like egg cells.
On top of providing new insights into the mechanisms of egg cell development, the research may lead to a simple route for generating highly specialized substances unique to oocytes for use in reproductive biology and medicine.