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The Lion-Nomura Japan active ETF gives exposure to 50-100 Japanese listed securities, and will list on the SGX on Jan 31.

That’s flashing warning signs for large food importers like Singapore, which is expected to see food inflation double to 8.2%.

Shares Nippon paint jumped as much as 5.1% in afternoon trading in Tokyo after the Nikkei newspaper first reported the news.

SINGAPORE (Aug 8): Singapore's economy may have grown slightly more than previously estimated in the second quarter due to strength in manufacturing, but questions remain about whether the pick-up will broaden to other sectors in the second half.

MANHATTAN (May 9): A former Nomura Holdings Inc. bond trader said he was trained to lie to customers shortly after coming to the company in order to boost the firm’s commissions.

SINGAPORE (Nov 18): Nomura is maintaining its “reduce” recommendation on M1, with a lower target price from $2 to $1.75, after TPG Telecom and MyRepublic received pre-qualification to participate in the New Entrant Spectrum Auction.

SINGAPORE (Nov 18): Nomura Global Markets Research has upgraded Ascendas Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) from “neutral” to “buy” with a lower target price of $2.48 from $2.50 previously.

SINGAPORE (Sept 23): Nomura is not getting itself all excited over the recent pickup in Indonesian purchases of luxury homes in Singapore and prefers to remain selective on the stocks of residential developers.

SINGAPORE (Sept 19): Nomura is maintaining its 2016 fiscal deficit forecast for Indonesia at 2.9% of GDP despite noting “good progress” of the nation’s recent tax amnesty deal.

SINGAPORE (Sept 5): Analysts from Maybank Kim Eng and Citi Research agree that the risk of a new market telco entrant has significantly spiked – although in Nomura’s view, it is still too early to take a specific stance on the spectrum’s results.