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Toshiba chairman resigns over huge nuclear business loss
Trib Total Media ^ | Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017 | The Associated Press

Posted on 02/14/2017 3:03:50 PM PST by RS_Rider

TOKYO — Toshiba Corp.'s chairman resigned Tuesday after the company logged such massive losses in its nuclear business that it must sell its lucrative computer-chip business to avoid going belly-up.

The company projected a 712.5 billion yen ($6.3 billion) loss for its nuclear business related to the acquisition of CB&I Stone & Webster by its U.S. nuclear unit Westinghouse. The company also said it will not take on new projects to construct nuclear plants.

President Satoshi Tsunakawa said the company also was looking for potential partners to acquire a stake in Westinghouse.

He bowed deeply at a news conference to apologize for “troubling investors and stakeholders.”

Earlier Tuesday, Toshiba delayed reporting its official financial results by a month, citing auditing problems. That sent Toshiba stock tumbling 8 percent in Tokyo trading.

After the market closed, it released unaudited numbers, warning they may change “by a wide margin.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Japan; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: ap1000; nuclear
Can't be good news for the new WE Cranberry campus.
1 posted on 02/14/2017 3:03:50 PM PST by RS_Rider
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To: RS_Rider

Ouch! That’s going to leave a mark!


2 posted on 02/14/2017 3:12:19 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: RS_Rider
Earlier Tuesday, Toshiba delayed reporting its official financial results by a month, citing auditing problems. That sent Toshiba stock tumbling 8 percent in Tokyo trading. After the market closed, it released unaudited numbers, warning they may change “by a wide margin.”

Investment gurus recommend diversifying with foreign stocks. But then I read stuff like this, where a company in a foreign land is allowed to just delay releasing numbers and then releases numbers but says they are baloney and I am reminded that I have no confidence in the regulation of markets in foreign lands. Heck, this is Japan! Imagine how nutty it is in Africa and South America!

3 posted on 02/14/2017 3:18:14 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: DoughtyOne

“Ouch! That’s going to leave a mark!”

Hopefully the petroleum industry will absorb the talent.


4 posted on 02/14/2017 3:20:30 PM PST by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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To: RS_Rider

“:^)


5 posted on 02/14/2017 3:27:15 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: RS_Rider

This is the kind of thing that Japanese businessmen commit hara-kiri over.

CC


6 posted on 02/14/2017 3:33:28 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: RS_Rider

The Westinghouse story of decline and dismemberment is well known. It no longer exists as an independent entity.

If Cranberry got all of the WE maintenance business, it should still be busy. Toshiba got in trouble selling an AP1000 design that wasn’t fully vetted by regulatory agencies and getting involved with the Chinese building nukes.


7 posted on 02/14/2017 3:44:14 PM PST by meatloaf
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To: meatloaf

You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse.


8 posted on 02/14/2017 4:16:47 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: RS_Rider

Seppuku imminent


9 posted on 02/14/2017 4:23:57 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Lisbon1940

“You can be sure if it’s Westinghouse”

As the old saying goes:
We-Sting-Ho-Use


10 posted on 02/14/2017 4:54:07 PM PST by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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Didn’t know there was still something called Westinghouse. Used to be a great company.


11 posted on 02/14/2017 7:43:51 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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