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Eneos Corp lifted its nationwide retail gasoline marker for the third time in four weeks on Tuesday, citing dollar-denominated crude imports and a weak yen that keep refinery transfer prices elevated even as drivers return from the Sports Day holiday.
Inpex is booking higher yen-denominated LNG procurement costs as the currency trades near 158 per dollar, forcing the producer to lean on domestic gas sales and equity stakes while investors watch whether Middle East supply reroutes squeeze winter margins.
Mitsubishi Corp and Itochu trimmed dollar-forward hedge ratios in quarterly disclosures as the yen slid past 153 per dollar, forcing trading houses to balance import costs against offshore asset marks.
Kirin froze three distributor price lists within 48 hours of the Fair Trade Commission’s dawn searches, while Asahi and Suntory filed sworn statements on how they set wholesale beer margins.
TEPCO Power Grid is soliciting emergency transmission work while landslides keep crews from reaching damaged feeders across northern Chiba.
Fair-trade investigators searched all four majors that dominate Japan’s beer market in a wholesale price-cartel probe, the first such beer enforcement action in agency history.
