Founded in 1876, 'Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc', or 'Nikkei' as it is more widely known, is the primary source of business information for top executives and decision-makers in Japan. Its flagship newspaper, The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, is the world's largest-selling business daily, combining both incisive articles on economics, business, finance and politics with first-rate reporting on social affairs, cultural events and sports.
The Nikkei Stock Average is Japan's most widely watched index of stock market activity and has been calculated continuously since September 7, 1950.


The NEEDS Service is the premier Japanese Financial and Economic database. Nikkei has collected an extensive database covering:

Corporate Financial
Stock Price, Indicators and Indices
Fixed Income
Derivatives
Commodities
Economics
Macroeconomic
Foreign Exchange and Interest Rates


Nikkei is Japan's leading data vendor, providing end-of-day and historical data. NEEDS's data is widely regarded as the most accurate database for Japanese securities. As the local source for financial data on the Japanese markets, our clients are provided with the most comprehensive and timely data available anywhere. Nikkei, provide electronic data services, such as 'NEEDS', 'Nikkei Telecom 21' and 'Nikkei English News'.


Nikkei's four main newspapers are leaders in their field. The Nikkei Weekly is Japan's only English newspaper. The Nikkei Business Daily covers the latest developments in such fields as biotechnology, marketing and electronics; The Nikkei Financial Daily provides in-depth analysis on international and domestic capital and money markets; and The Nikkei Marketing Journal covers Japan's commercial marketing and distribution sectors.

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun
The Nikkei Business Daily
The Nikkei Marketing Journal
The Nikkei Financial Daily
The Nikkei Weekly (English)

Nikkei is involved in a wide range of broadcasting initiatives and industrial & cultural events, and also published 34 magazines and over 300 books last year, covering a wide range of interests from business and management issues through to social trends and the fine arts.


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