TOKYO, Oct. 17 (Xinhua) — The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) stated on Tuesday that 177 firms shall be moved down from its prime Prime market to the Standard part for failing to fulfill the highest market’s necessities.
With the transfer scheduled for Friday, the variety of Prime firms will fall to simply over 1,600.
The TSE reorganized its segments in April final 12 months into three, Prime, Standard and Growth, in a bid to draw extra world buyers.
Prime is meant for companies which are internationally aggressive and have excessive development potential. Its comparatively strict itemizing necessities embody a market capitalization of at the least 10 billion yen, or roughly 67 million U.S. {dollars}.
In addition to a big market cap, Prime firms are required to have excessive requirements of company governance and commitments to development.