Panda's possible pregnancy delivers stocks bump

Who would have thunk it! What wonderful news for the stock market! (Did get this kind of stock tip from the broker!)

China better not have the audacity to demand the baby when its born.

Sorry @Fighto! 4:43pm ‘They‘ broadened the traditional definition of “repatriate” to include:

*- “the process of returning an asset, an item of symbolic value, or a person, voluntarily or forcibly, to its ‘owner’, despite their place of birth, origin or citizenship.” -*

We can always go to visit later.

- “Xiang Xiang, a female born [in Japan] in June 2017 to Shin Shin and Ri Ri, was originally scheduled to be repatriated to China two years after its birth [in Japan], but Japanese officials have negotiated to keep the popular panda until the end of this year.” -

Also, it’s recommended you don’t bring that flag.

A possible panda pregnancy at a Tokyo zoo caused stocks of a nearby restaurant chain to briefly soar 30 percent on Friday as the chance of a pandemic conception bred excitement among investors.

A joke on market interpretation and analysis. There must have been other critical factors pushing up the prices.

It's more newsworthy exploring how much (public) money has been spent to China for the loan program of pandas. An estimate shows minimal 100 million yen per year.

Technically none of pandas belongs to Japan; even though they are born and raised here, subject to "deportation" to China. Or should we grant them a refuge status :D

Can you explain it? @noriahojanen 5:10pm ...

“A joke on market interpretation and analysis.”

... because it’s not apparent and they won’t allow ‘any interpretation’ other than what’s written in the story.

Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike delivered the news to media in a mid-morning announcement, which gave a welcome bump to shares in eateries near the zoo anticipating a visitor boom if a baby panda arrives.

Pandas are cute. This reeks of desperate political pandering to a desperate public that are not otherwise being served by their elected officials in a pandemic.

Ah! Finally get it, 'dagonit!:

"..desperate pandaring during a pandaemic!" -

And to think we were more focused on the 'business and economics' side of the story.

Like you guys say, "My Bad."

Well then, @dagon 7:06pm, to your point:

Of course, Koike will ‘glom on’ to any ‘good news’ she can...

“Tokyo Gov Yuriko Koike delivered the news to media in a mid-morning announcement, which gave a welcome bump to shares in eateries near the zoo.”

always followed up with disclaimers in case this may go the other way.

“Signs usually seen are being seen now," [but] “It is still difficult to say clearly whether in fact a baby will be born...” -

She’s gonna need it!

“ I am truly looking forward to being able to deliver good news to all of you,"- 

We’d be surprised she doesn’t later claim to have been there in March, playing romantic violin music for the amorous panda couple.

I wonder if they will name the baby panda XI

Another one for China's "Panda diplomacy".

This sounds suspiciously like something from a Saturday Night Live skit, an article from The Onion or something in Mad magazine.

I know all Pandas have strings attached to China. But the fact remains: they are irresistibly cute.