Mizuho Financial Group (8411.T) fell 1 percent to 192 yenafter Kyodo news agency reported Japan’s No. 2 bank is likely toreport an annual net loss of more than $5 billion, hit by a surgein bad-loan costs. [ID:nT203882] [ID:nT203882] It would be Mizuho’s first annual loss in six years. Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (8306.T) lost 0.2 percent to478 yen. Market watchers kept a wary eye on currencies, with thedollar and euro edging near three-week lows versus the yen. “The appreciating yen is a big factor weighing on the market.The yen’s advance against the euro in particular is worrying,”said Kazutaka Oshima, chief strategist at Rakuten Securities. “With the European Central Bank expected to cut rates it isunclear how far the euro will fall against the yen.

This elementof higher uncertainty makes the euro a larger threat to domesticexporters compared to the dollar,” Oshima said. Many investors were also reluctant to buy stocks ahead of aslew of events including the outcome of U.S government “stresstests” on the nation’s largest banks. “Given upcoming Japanese earnings results, the results of theU.S. bank stress tests, and the still unknown fate of GM, it’sgoing to be hard for the market to find direction,” said HiroichiNishi, general manager at the equity division of Nikko CordialSecurities. The dollar was unchanged at 97.98 yen JPY= after hitting97.63 yen on trading platform EBS and the euro edged up 0.2percent to 127.60 yen EURJPY=R after touching 126.80 yen onEBS. [FRX/] Weekly capital flows data released by Japan’s Ministry ofFinance on Thursday showed that foreign investors reverted backto selling Japanese stocks, offloading a net 51.8 billion yenlast week after two straight weeks of buying.

[JP/CAP] Trade fell off slightly, with 2.42 billion shares changinghands on the Tokyo exchange’s first section compared with lastweek’s daily average of 2.56 billion. Advancing shares outnumbered declining ones by more than 2 to1.(Additional reporting by Elaine Lies; Editing by JosephRadford) Stocks Asian Markets Japan. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – The ETSU baseball team is set to host Stetson this weekend at Cardinal Park for a three-game series that will determine the final spot in the Atlantic Sun Tournament.Game one of the series is Thursday at 7 p.m with game two Friday at 7 p.m and game three Saturday at 1 p.m Friday’s game could be moved to 2 p.m pending the outcome of the TSSAA state baseball playoffs.

The Bucs (18-35, 9-21) will need to sweep Stetson and get a Lipscomb sweep of Campbell to get the final spot in the tournament.Saturdays game is senior day as the Bucs will be honoring Anthony Russell (Waldorf, Md.), Matt McGahey (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Bubba Herbold (Knoxville, Tenn.), Robbie Campbell (Lothian, Md.), Jimmy Tidwell (Acworth, Ga.), Brandon Langston (Ringgold, Ga.) and Jon Edmonds (Johnson City, Tenn.) in their last game as a Buc at Cardinal Park. All three games will be broadcast live as Jay Sandos the “Voice of the Bucs”, will be calling all the action on live on both the website and on on WKPT-AM 1590 and its translator 97.7 FM in Johnson City, WKTP-AM 1400 and its translator 94.3 FM in Kingsport and WOPI-AM 1490 in Bristol. Additionally, WOPI’s FM translator 97.7 will also the game. Fans at the ballpark can also hear the game on Stadiumcast which is 88.7 FM. If the game Friday is moved there will be no radio broadcast, but the game will still be on the internet. Saturday’s game will be broadcast tape delayed on ASun ..