Train-Hopping Nomura Broker Chases Appetite for Stocks
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The best-performing stock market of the developed world this year is keeping Japanese brokers like Kensuke Ueda running. Literally.
Dodging pedestrians and hopping subway trains as he dashes from one client meeting to the next, the 31-year-old employee of Nomura Holdings Inc. bounds up stairs two at a time -- all while taking stock orders on the phone. Wondering if he has time for lunch, he glances at his Zenith El Primero watch, whose name in Spanish translates as “the first” and keeps time to the nearest 10th of a second. He decides he doesn’t.