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NEW DELHI, Oct 10- Russia delayed delivery of a trouble-plagued aircraft carrier for at least a year on Friday, a blow to India's efforts to quickly build up naval strength as increasingly assertive Asian rival China expands its maritime reach.
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TOKYO, Oct 10- Japan Advisory will have the opportunity to challenge insider trading charges against the Tokyo- based hedge fund at a hearing on Oct. 17, the country's financial regulator said on its website on Wednesday.
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Toyota says it will recall about 2.4 million cars in the U.S., 1.4 million in China and nearly 1.4 million in Europe - the biggest single recall since 1996, the Nikkei's Nozomu Kitadai reports.
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*FTSE 100 down 0.2 percent, yo-yoing around 5,800. LONDON, Oct 10- Britain's top shares edged lower on Wednesday, tracking falls on Wall Street and in Asia on concerns over the global growth outlook, although gains in heavyweight miners and banks provided a floor under the FTSE 100 index around the 5,800 level. At 0805 GMT, the FTSE 100.
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TOKYO, Oct 10- Japan's Toyota Motor Corp announced a massive recall on Wednesday to fix malfunctioning power window switches, saying it will pull back 7.43 million vehicles worldwide in the biggest single recall since 1996, performed by Ford Motor Co. The recall primarily affects cars in the United States, China and Europe.
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TOKYO, Oct 10- Japan Advisory will challenge an insider trading charge against the Tokyo- based hedge fund at a hearing on Oct. 17, according to a notice on the website of Japan's financial regulator.
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SENDAI, Japan, Oct 10- World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said on Wednesday he had great faith that Japan and China would find a way to cooperate in the future, amid a deterioration in relations between the two countries due to a territorial dispute.
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TOKYO, Oct 10- Japan's Toyota Motor Corp announced a massive recall on Wednesday to fix malfunctioning power window switches, saying it will pull back 7.43 million vehicles worldwide in the biggest single recall since 1996, performed by Ford Motor Co. The recall primarily affects cars in the United States, China and Europe.
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*SK Hynix slides after peer Intel's downgrade. SEOUL, Oct 10- South Korean shares retreated, led by a slump for Samsung Electronics following brokerage downgrades of Intel that sparked a sell-off of U.S. technology firms overnight.
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BEIJING, Oct 10- Vehicle sales in China fell 1.8 percent in September from a year earlier, as Japanese automakers' sales collapsed, adding to downward pressures from a slowing economy and rising fuel costs that have weighed on the world's biggest auto market.
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Oct 10-=============================================================================== Summary analysis-- Sharp Corp.----------------------------------- 10- Oct-2012=============================================================================== CREDIT RATING: BB+/ Watch Neg/B Country: Japan Primary SIC: Household appliances, nec Mult. CUSIP6: 819882=============================================================================== Credit Rating History: Local currency Foreign currency 31- Aug-2012 BB+/ B BB+/ B 03- Aug-2012 BBB/A-2 BBB/A-2 03- Feb-2012 BBB+/ A-2 BBB+/ A-2 11- May-2011 A-/A-2 A-/A-2=============================================================================== Rationale.
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BEIJING, Oct 10- Vehicle sales in China fell 1.8 percent in September from a year earlier as Japanese automakers' sales collapsed, adding to downward pressures from a slowing economy and rising fuel costs that have weighed on the world's biggest auto market.
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BEIJING, Oct 10- Vehicle sales in China fell 1.8 percent in September from a year earlier as Japanese automakers' sales collapsed, adding to downward pressures from a slowing economy and rising fuel costs that have weighed on the world's biggest auto market.
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TOKYO, Oct 10- Mitsubishi Motors Corp said on Wednesday that one or more shareholders had converted 5,300 preferred shares into 74.6 million new common shares at 71 yen per share, or worth 5.3 billion yen since the start of October.
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*Toyota falls on vehicle recall, China sales slump. *Tokyo Electron rises after Q2 orders beat expectations. TOKYO, Oct 10- Japan's Nikkei average shed 2 percent to hit a two-month closing low on concerns that coming corporate earnings will be hurt by sluggish global growth, as the IMF cut its forecasts for the second time since April.
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TOKYO-- Toyota Motor Corp. is recalling 7.43 million vehicles in the U.S., Japan, Europe and elsewhere around the world for a faulty power-window switch _ the latest, massive quality woes for Japan's top automaker.
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TOKYO Oct. 10, 2012-- Standard& Poor's Ratings Services today assigned its' A+' debt ratings to the 29th and 30th series of domestic unsecured straight bonds issued by Development Bank of Japan Inc.. Because of its critical policy role, we believe DBJ has an "extremely high" likelihood of receiving extraordinary support from the government of Japan.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10- The founders of Malaysia's AirAsia Bhd, Tony Fernandes and Kamarudin Meranun, are set to kick off an initial public offering spree in 2013 with three listings worth more than $500 million.
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Oct 10- Fitch Ratings has affirmed The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company Limited's Insurer Financial Strength Rating at' A' and its Long-Term Issuer Default Rating at' A-'. The company's surrender and lapse rate was stable at 4.69% at end-March 2012 and remains the lowest among domestic peers.
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PARIS, Oct 10- European stocks are set to fall on Wednesday, losing ground for the third straight session on mounting worries over corporate results as the earnings season gets under way. ,for Germany's DAX and for France's CAC were down 0.1-0.4 percent. Late on Tuesday, U.S. aluminium major Alcoa.