With most of the March-year cohort in, guidance raises are running ahead of last year — but concentrated in a narrow band of exporters.

Five sogo shosha reported within eight days and disagreed, in their own guidance, about metallurgical coal and LNG.

The tractor maker raised its operating-profit guide after two quarters of destocking ended in its largest overseas market.

The purchase extends a run of mid-sized European acquisitions by Japanese IT services groups.