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Cina
Il miliardario cinese scomparso torna al lavoro
Il miliardario cinese scomparso torna al lavoro. Guo Guangchang ha partecipato all’assemblea del Fosun group, il gruppo finanziario di Shanghai di cui è il presidente. Di lui si erano perse le tracce giovedì. L’azienda aveva comunicato che stava collaborando con la polizia. Lui non ha aggiunto dettagli. Pechino ha avviato ...
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Giappone
Dollar stalls around ¥121.20
The dollar stalled around ¥121.20 in late Tokyo trading on Monday after cutting early losses thanks to buybacks. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥121.24-25, down from ¥121.92-93 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.0960-0961, up from $1.0951-0952, and at ¥132.89-90, down from ¥133.52-53. In early ...
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Cina Giappone
Japan, China, South Korea kick off trilateral free trade talks
Senior officials from Japan, China and South Korea began talks Monday on a three-way free trade pact following an agreement by the nations’ leaders to seek an early conclusion of such a deal. At the five-day, director-general-level talks, the three neighboring countries will work to set up a framework of ...
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Giappone
Bridgestone boosts offer for U.S. auto service chain Pep Boys
Bridgestone has upped its bid for U.S. auto service chain Pep Boys, after a competing offer from American investor Carl Icahn threatened to derail the Japanese firm’s takeover plans. The merger would make Bridgestone a major player in the U.S. car maintenance business, in direct competition with Icahn’s Auto Plus ...
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Giappone
Abe’s tax compromise raises odds of twin summer polls
Abe may now be able to persuade his ally Komeito to agree to a snap Lower House election on the same day as an upper chamber poll. The post Abe’s tax compromise raises odds of twin summer polls appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Giappone
Japanese businesses welcome golden lining in new climate agreement
Japanese businesses welcomed a new international climate change agreement adopted in Paris on Saturday as giving a lift to sales overseas of their energy-saving technologies and products. The deal represents a very significant historical step because it involves all greenhouse gas emitters, Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, ...
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Giappone
Nikkei tumbles to one-month low below 19,000
Stocks tumbled on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Monday following Wall Street’s plunge and the higher yen, sending the benchmark Nikkei average to a one-month closing low, below 19,000. The 225-issue Nikkei average dived 347.06 points, or 1.80 percent, to finish at 18,883.42, ending below 19,000 for the first time since ...
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Giappone
Fintech firms make inroads into the banking biz
With startups offering financial technology services raking in billions of dollars around the world, fintech, coined from “finance” and “technology,” has become a buzzword that old guards at big name financial institutions can no longer ignore. Originally a term to describe computer technology applied to the back end of banks ...
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Giappone
Online broker chases Japan’s day traders to close gap with peers
Monex Group Inc. is seeking more business from Japan’s growing ranks of day traders in a bid to catch up with other online brokerages. “Even if the investor pie for Japan’s stock market doesn’t increase, we’re going to muscle in on the huge business that competitors are doing with active ...
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Cina Giappone
Latest ‘tankan’ shows sentiment intact at big firms
Confidence in the economy among large manufacturers unexpectedly held up in the past few months, suggesting record corporate profits are compensating for uncertainty about the effects of an expected U.S. rate increase and the slowdown in China. The tankan index of business sentiment was unchanged at 12 among big manufacturers ...