Japan's Topix Index Gains as GS Yuasa Climbs; Steelmakers Rally

Battery maker GS Yuasa Corp. said Tuesday its Vietnamese subsidiary has decided to build a new motorcycle battery plant to double production capacity to 13 million units per year by 2017. GS Battery Vietnam Co. already has a motorcycle battery plant ...

GS Yuasa Corp. (6674), the maker of lithium-ion batteries for Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner, rose by the most in more than four years after United Airlines (UAL) The cell manufacturer climbed 17 percent, its daily limit and the most since November ...

8:00am BST GS Yuasa Corp announced that it has lowered its year-end dividend forecast from JPY 8.00 per share, which was announced on May 9, 2012, to JPY 6.00 per share, for the fiscal year ended

GS Yuasa Corporation is a holding company established through the merger of Yuasa Corp. and Japan Storage Battery Co., Ltd. The Company manages financial operations for its subsidiaries, which manufactures storage batteries used for automobiles, ...

GS Yuasa Corp. (6674) and ANA Holdings Inc. rose in Tokyo trading after the Nikkei newspaper reported that U.S. regulators plan to lift a ban on Boeing Co. (BA) 787 flights as early as this month. The Federal Aviation Authority has notified some ...

GS Yuasa Corp. (6674), a Japanese battery maker, rose the most in a month in Tokyo trading after Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (7211) said it aims to complete a probe this month into overheating in cells made by a unit of the company. The manufacturer of ...

(Updates with incidents of more battery faults in second paragraph) March 29 (Bloomberg) -- The crisis that GS Yuasa Corp. has been battling since the overheating of its batteries grounded Boeing Co. 787 jets is deepening. One lithium-ion battery ...

March 28 (Bloomberg) -- GS Yuasa Corp., the Japanese maker of the batteries that overheated and grounded all Boeing Co. Dreamliner flights, tumbled in Tokyo trading after separate incidents with Mitsubishi Motors Corp. cars. The stock fell as much ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s Outlander PHEV (Mainichi) Mitsubishi Motors Corp., plagued with a sting of problems for more than a decade, still faces an uphill battle to turn itself around, after recalling its flagship Outlander plug-in hybrid vehicle ...