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The Company’s consolidated earnings forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2026, has been revised. For further details, please refer to the 1H FY2025 Financial Results presentation materials, which have been disclosed separately.

[Mitsubishi Logisnext] Consolidated Earnings Forecast for the Fiscal Year Ending March 31, 2026

(million yen)

	Net Sales	Operating Profit	Ordinary Profit	Profit Attributable to Owners of Parent	Basic Earnings Per Share
Previously announced forecast (A)	650,000	24,000	18,000	11,000	103.12 yen
Latest forecast announced today (B)	635,000	14,000	8,500	1,000	9.37 yen
Change (amount): (B – A)	(15,000)	(10,000)	(9,500)	(10,000)	–
Change (%)	(2.3%)	(41.7%)	(52.8%)	(90.9%)	–
FY2024 results (For reference)	665,594	20,766	14,860	8,664	81.26 yen

Figures in parentheses are negative.

Tokyo, November 7, 2025 – Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has reached a basic agreement with Electric Power Development Co., Ltd. (J-POWER) to commence discussions on the transfer of MHI’s domestic onshore wind power business (the “Subject Business”) to J-POWER. Upon reaching mutual agreement on the necessary conditions for the transfer, both parties will execute a definitive agreement, aiming to complete the transfer by April 1, 2026.

Since initiating the manufacturing of large-scale wind turbines domestically in the 1980s, MHI has accumulated more than 40 years of extensive knowledge and expertise in wind turbine technology. To date, MHI has delivered over 4,200 turbines to 11 countries worldwide, primarily in North America and Japan, and has continuously provided after-sales services. Through this business transfer, MHI aims to fully leverage its specialized expertise across a broader range of fields.

J-POWER is committed to balancing stable domestic power supply with addressing climate change by actively developing its wind power business. The J-POWER Group contributes to stable electricity supply and is also pursuing carbon neutrality, as outlined in the J-POWER “BLUE MISSION 2050” announced in February 2021.(Note) Wind power has been a core focus for J-POWER since it was among the first in Japan to operate a large-scale commercial wind farm in 2000, and it currently holds the second-largest domestic market share in wind power generation facilities.

The transfer of the Subject Business will strengthen and further expand J-POWER’s foundation as a wind power developer by integrating MHI’s accumulated wind power expertise. This collaboration is expected to accelerate the future expansion of J-POWER’s wind power business and related services, leading to further growth. MHI is convinced that this will not only provide customers with greater value but also offer new opportunities for growth and development to employees engaged in this business.

MHI Group will continue to optimize its business organization in line with the policy of strengthening portfolio management set out in the 2024 Medium-Term Business Plan.

One big pay package to start: Tesla investors have overwhelmingly backed Elon Musk’s $1tn pay deal, hoping that the prospect of the largest payday in corporate history will persuade the billionaire to focus his attention on the electric vehicle maker.

A scoop: The Messina Group, the US political consulting firm run by a former aide of Barack Obama, is seeking to sell off its stake in Global Counsel, the lobbying outfit co-founded by Lord Peter Mandelson.

And another thing: Swiss commodity trader Gunvor said on Thursday that it was scrapping its $22bn bid to buy Lukoil’s overseas assets after the US moved to block the deal.

In today’s newsletter: 

• The chaos of First Brands lands in Houston

• Brighthouse Financial sells . . . finally

• Hong Kong’s lucrative capital flight trade

First Brands: Houston, we have a $1.1bn problem

Bankers and lawyers make millions of dollars a year, but for the rainmakers, the wealth and glamour can’t always make up for the job infringing on their personal lives.

DD’s Amelia Pollard made the trek to Houston for the first in-person courtroom gathering of the claimants in the messy freefall bankruptcy of First Brands, the scandalised Ohio auto parts maker.

Lazard’s Tyler Cowan, the all-important banker to First Brands, was in Paris and expected to testify on Thursday in front of the federal bankruptcy court via video. 

But as the FT saw up close and personal, the chaos of the session over court approval of the final $600mn tranche of a $1.1bn bankruptcy loan was contentious. 

So much so that Cowan had to depart in the France evening for an anniversary dinner before he could address the court, First Brands’ lawyers from Weil, Gotshal & Manges told the judge overseeing the case.

Cowan’s virtual appearance was then dragged into Friday while his Lazard junior colleagues were in the Houston court rerunning spreadsheet models.

Just as well. While some groups such as the official unsecured creditors committee were able to cut deals with the debtor to share future potential litigation proceeds, there were a few remaining creditor holdouts over the loan legalities, with negotiations to continue through the night.

In the meantime, the court and the world got updates on the state of the First Brands business. Interim chief executive Charles Moore, an Alvarez & Marsal executive, had spent the week in Las Vegas for the biggest trade show in “after-market auto parts”.

Moore and other executives have spent the past several weeks triaging the company’s fleet of auto parts brands, including collecting more than 7mn documents and looking through bank account records for hundreds of clients. 

They have also set up a “whistleblowing hotline” for employees in hopes of understanding previous misconduct.

The plan is for the company to keep operating and sell itself to maximise recoveries for all parties, which include on- and off-balance sheet creditors owed $12bn. 

But that will probably require the $1.1bn bankruptcy loan to get approved in the next day or two with various advisers having their weekend plans scrambled.

The new insurance-funded private capital giant 

It was a deal that had hedge funds on the edge of their seats and advisers pulling their hair out. 

The sale of Brighthouse Financial, scooped by the FT in January, had many twists and turns as a handful of private capital giants, including Apollo, TPG, Sixth Street and Carlyle, studied whether they could resuscitate the beleaguered insurer.

Most buyers bowed out after their due diligence uncovered potential headaches, or they were only willing to pay a bargain price for the insurer.

But one relatively small and unheralded bidder emerged as Brighthouse’s most fervent suitor, Aquarian Holdings, a Mubadala Capital-backed, insurance-focused private capital group founded in 2017 by Rudy Sahay, a former executive at Guggenheim. 

Aquarian agreed to pay $70 per share, or $4.1bn, for Brighthouse, confirming an FT scoop last week that the two parties were in advanced talks and days away from a deal.

The buyer had been in months of on-and-off negotiations with Brighthouse that included times when talks froze and other potential buyers such as Sixth Street re-emerged. Many interested watchers and advisers questioned whether Aquarian, which manages $25bn in assets, had the financial wherewithal to buy an insurer about nine times its size. 

Ultimately, with the backing of Mubadala Capital, Aquarian convinced Brighthouse’s advisers Goldman Sachs and Wells Fargo that it was good for the money in a deal that will propel the nascent outfit into the big leagues of the nexus between insurance and private capital.

If the transaction closes as planned in 2026, Sahay will oversee an insurance empire with similar if not greater size than those managed by billionaires Todd Boehly and Mark Walter, his mentors at Guggenheim, the pioneer of matching the assets of sleepy life insurance companies with higher-octane private debt investments.

Thursday’s deal, while niche in the greater pantheon of dealmaking, could be the seed of the next big insurance-funded private capital giant. 

But that’s if all goes as planned in Sahay’s efforts to revamp Brighthouse, an insurer spun off by MetLife in 2017, which has drifted for years on public markets. 

The insurance problem gripping Hong Kong

A crucial gauge for Chinese capital leakage has hit an all-time high in Hong Kong this year, in a sign that the world’s largest middle class is looking to move money out of mainland China.

Sales of investment-style insurance reached a record level in Hong Kong in the first half of 2025, according to the territory’s Insurance Authority.

Annualised new premiums in the six months to the end of June were HK$99bn (US$13bn) — the highest recorded by the agency.

Figures on how the Chinese move money out of the country are scarce and insurance sales are seen as a key metric for analysts to understand how mainland investors feel about the local market.

Sales of insurance in Hong Kong are driven in large part by mainland Chinese who have to physically cross the border to purchase US dollar insurance policies and open local bank accounts to pay premiums.

The big beneficiaries of this trade, seen by analysts as a legal form of capital leakage that is tolerated by authorities on a small scale, are the big insurance sellers including AIA, FWD and Prudential.

The giant in the territory is HSBC: 25 cents in every dollar sold goes to HSBC or Hang Seng’s insurance brokers.

Mainlanders making the journey in many cases are looking to hedge their renminbi exposure by holding dollar assets or holding funds offshore. 

They’re also looking to take advantage of the higher interest rates offered in Hong Kong and the US versus mainland China.

It’s great business. One industry executive told DD’s Arjun Neil Alim such deals amounted to 30 to 40 per cent of their company’s sales. Another estimated the proportion of total sales was more than a third. That could be more than HK$33bn — a pretty hefty flight to safety.

Job moves

• Goldman Sachs has tapped 638 people for promotions to become managing directors starting in the new year. The number of women as a percentage of the class fell from 31 per cent two years ago to 27 per cent this year.

• Bank of America has named Peter Luck as chair of UK and Ireland investment banking. James Robertson will head UK corporate and investment banking, while Duncan Stewart and Stephen Little will be co-heads of UK investment banking.  

Smart reads

Red tape Over the past 20 years, Australian banking giant Macquarie Group has transformed itself into a US energy trading powerhouse, Bloomberg reports. But a recent compliance crackdown has slowed it down, leading to an exodus of top traders.

Money driven The New York Times asks, would Elon Musk work harder for $1tn than he would for $1bn?

Fools game? The bidding war over Metsera, a maker of obesity drugs, has only one winner, writes Lex. The hot-headed bidders could be set to benefit least.

News round-up

Tesla shareholders approve Elon Musk’s $1tn pay deal (FT)

UBS to liquidate funds with substantial First Brands exposure (FT)

Comcast holds talks about buying ITV’s television business (FT)

Novo Nordisk challenges Pfizer to raise offer for obesity biotech (FT)

Sam Altman says OpenAI is not ‘trying to become too big to fail’ (FT)

Three biggest US airlines to cancel hundreds of flights due to government shutdown (FT)

Solar power producer Pine Gate files for bankruptcy (FT)

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US retailers and hospitality groups are hiring the smallest number of seasonal workers in more than a decade as tariffs and a slowing labour market weigh on holiday sales forecasts.

Jobs site ZipRecruiter said retailers are advertising 8.4 per cent fewer holiday jobs on its site than last year, while postings for temporary hospitality workers fell 12 per cent. Executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas forecast that US employers may hire fewer than 500,000 temporary workers in the last three months of 2025, the lowest total since 2009.

Each autumn, stores such as Walmart, Target and Macy’s typically announce plans to hire hundreds of thousands of temporary staff to stock shelves, run checkouts and bolster warehouse operations during their busiest period of the year. But the reduction in hiring reflects retail industry caution about the approaching holiday shopping season, with US consumers pinched amid persistent inflation and an uncertain economic outlook.

Challenger, Gray released data on Thursday showing US employers cut more than 153,000 jobs in October and more than 1mn this year, with the pace of lay-offs accelerating as consumer and corporate spending declines and AI adoption advances.

Separately, the National Retail Federation’s holiday forecast released on Thursday said sales were expected to grow 3.7 to 4.2 per cent this year, compared with 4.3 per cent in 2024, with seasonal jobs expected to be as much as 40 per cent lower than a year ago. Still, it forecast holiday spending to eclipse $1tn.

Retailer Target said in a statement that it still planned to hire “holiday helpers” in all 50 states, but declined to provide a number, and said it would “first offer our current team members opportunities to work additional hours, if desired” before bringing in new staff. By contrast, last year the company announced it would hire an additional 100,000 workers.

Amazon said it would hire the same 250,000 seasonal workers this year as it did last year.

“Our clients have already told us that it’s going to be anywhere from 10 per cent to 20 per cent reductions” in their seasonal workforces, said Radhika Papandreou, president of the North American division of management consultancy Korn Ferry. “It’s just the world we live in with tariffs, China and just the uncertainty in general. Our clients are being cautious about how much the average consumer is going to want to spend.”