Tokyo/London, April 3, 2009 The Nikkei Group and Breakingviews.com have agreed to publish Breakingviews columns in NIKKEI Veritas, Japan’s leading finance and investment weekly, and on the NIKKEI Veritas Market Online subscriber website beginning on April 5, 2009.
The columns will be published in Japanese and English, and will be chosen by NIKKEI Veritas’ editors from Breakingviews.com’s agenda-setting commentary on business and financial stories around the globe. In addition, NIKKEI Veritas readers will be able to sign up for free trials of the Breakingviews.com service in English.
Breakingviews.com offers agenda-setting commentary, analysis and insight on the top financial events around the globe – a key service for the general public and financial experts alike in the current environment.
“NIKKEI Veritas’ outstanding reputation and sophisticated readership makes it an ideal platform for our pull-no-punches financial commentary,” said Hugo Dixon, breakingviews Editor-in-chief and Chairman. “We especially look forward to introducing NIKKEI Veritas Market Online readers the breakingviews global financial community.”
Launched in March 2008 and published every Sunday by Nikkei Inc., NIKKEI Veritas is packed with information about ever-changing market trends, corporate value analysis and financial products. It also carries longer stories pointedly focused on the flow of money around the globe and the latest investment issues. NIKKEI Veritas Market Online subscribers get the most up-to-date information available every day.
Created in 1999, Breakingviews.com delivers independent financial commentary throughout the business day to more than 15,000 professionals among the world's top investment banks, hedge funds, institutional investors, corporations, sovereign wealth funds, law firms and public relations advisors. It also reaches a broader audience of nearly 4.5m investors and opinion-formers via columns in The New York Times (USA), The Telegraph (UK), The International Herald Tribune, Le Monde (France), El Pais and Cinco Dias (Spain), Handelsblatt (Germany), La Stampa (Italy), NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), Caijing (China) The National (UAE), Business Standard (India), The Business Times (Singapore) and L’Agefi (Switzerland).
For further information, please contact:
Hugo Dixon Editor-in-chief and Chairman
breakingviews.com
hugo.dixon@breakingviews.com Office: +44 (0)20 7496 1857
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