Complaints as Nikkei scoops Japan's inside line

Tokyo - Every morning, Japan's most-influential business daily, the Nikkei, supplies its three million readers with a host of market-moving news - from earnings to acquisitions - with crystal ball like accuracy.

Stocks rise and fall on the Nikkei's reports about Japan, which are treated like gospel when trading on the world's second-biggest equities market.

But the consistently on-the-mark news has riled overseas investors, who say it gives their Japanese counterparts an unfair home advantage being many time zones ahead, and sparked calls for changes in legislation to provide a level playing field.