TOKYO : Japanese trading house Marubeni on Friday posted a net profit of 238.1 billion yen ($1.6 billion) in the six months to end-September on lower commodity prices, down 13 per cent from the same period a year earlier. Last year, Marubeni's net profit for the April-September period was 251.3 billion ye

TOKYO : Japanese trading house Mitsubishi on Friday posted net profit of 618 billion yen ($4 billion) for the six months to September, up 33 per cent from a year earlier, driven by lower yen and divestments.In April-September last year, the company reported net profit of 466 billion yen. Mitsubishi kept i