New York

IT MAY not be as far-fetched as the CIA dispatching a celebrity tabloid show host and his producer to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. Yet a 43 per cent rally in the shares of money-losing Sony Corp is pretty remarkable.

Sony has delivered a one-year return that's on par with that of Apple Inc and is one of the top performing stocks in Japan in 2014, easily beating gains of about 9 per cent in Japan's Nikkei 225 and Topix benchmark indexes.