Japan's Matsuya rises after strong Feb sales at main store
02/03/2018 01:11
** Department store operator Matsuya Co 8237.T rises 3.7
pct to 1,546 yen
** Co says February sales at its main store in Ginza rose
12.3 pct on year
** Co has underperformed the Tokyo SE TOPIX Retail Trade
Stock Price Index sector .IRETL.T by 3.7 percentage points in
the past one month
** The main stock index NIKKEI 225 .N225 has fallen 1.56
percent in the past month
** As of 01:03 GMT, about 106.00 thousand shares of the
Tokyo-based company have been traded, about 53.2 percent of
their 30-day moving average of 199.26 thousand shares a day
(Reuters
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