Japan's brokerage house Nomura logs $5.5 bln net loss

Special Report:Global Financial Crisis

TOKYO, Jan. 27 (Chinese media) -- Nomura Holdings Inc. Tuesday reported a net loss of 492.36 billion yen (5.53 billion U.S. dollars) for the first nine months of fiscal 2008 ending March, compared with a loss of 86.01 billion yen (980 million dollars) a year earlier.

The huge loss of the largest brokerage house in Japan was attributed to depressed stock and bond trading, and growing evaluation losses on securities holdings following Lehman's collapse last September amid deepening global financial turmoil.

Meanwhile, Nomura also recorded a pretax loss of 553.15 billion yen (6.21 billion dollars), against a profit of 133.74 billion yen (1.49 billion dollars) on revenue of 518.32 billion yen (5.82 billion dollars) in the same period a year earlier.