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Cina Giappone
SMFG chief says ‘cautious’ approach to lending needed in slowing Asia
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.’s top executive said the bank needs to be cautious in its drive to boost lending in Asia, as a slowdown in China and the slump in commodity prices cloud the region’s economic outlook. While President Koichi Miyata said he has no intention of changing his ...
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Giappone
FTC warns Costco Japan, Baron Park for engaging in gasoline price war
The nation’s antimonopoly watchdog has issued a warning to two gasoline retailers, including the Japanese unit of U.S. retailer Costco Wholesale Corp., over a price war that it said could have threatened the activities of competitors. Costco Wholesale Japan Ltd. and Japanese oil products retailer Baron Park Co. sold regular ...
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Giappone
Bank of Japan has room to maintain easing, Suga says
The Bank of Japan still has policy options to continue its unprecedented monetary easing, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said in an interview days after the central bank announced it would not expand its main stimulus target. “I think they still have policies they can pursue,” Suga said Wednesday at ...
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Giappone
Jobs to seekers ratio highest in nearly 24 years; unemployment up
The ratio of job openings to job seekers rose 0.01 point from the previous month to 1.25 in November after seasonal adjustment, hitting the highest since January 1992, as offers grew amid an economic recovery, the government said Friday in a data release. It is the first improvement in the ...
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Giappone
Japan’s fiscal discipline in doubt after politically expedient decision to exempt food from tax hike
The ruling bloc’s agreement to give tax relief to consumers who buy selected items after the consumption tax is raised in April 2017 left unresolved the crucial problem of how to offset the measure, which will cost ¥1 trillion annually in lost revenue. A politically motivated settlement not backed by ...
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Giappone
November saw Japan’s consumer prices rise 0.1%
Consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in November from a year earlier for the first increase in five months, the government said Friday, reflecting a smaller decline in energy prices and higher food prices. The core consumer price index, which excludes volatile fresh food prices, stood at 103.4 against the 2010 ...
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Brasile El Salvador
Con comida típica los salvadoreños celebran la Navidad
Los salvadoreños celebran con alegría y esperanza esta noche la Navidad.En los hogares las familias prepararon diferente platillos que como base tienen pavos, gallinas y patos, entre otros.Así marchan los preparativos para la cena de #Navidad en los hogares salvadoreños pic.twitter.com/cb9NqdYSFJ— elsalvador.com (@elsalvadorcom) December 25, 2015Más preparativos para la cena de #Navidad en los hogares salvadoreños pic.twitter.com/udIfwe71Ra— ...
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Eugenio Figueredo, expresidente de Conmebol, a prisión en Uruguay para ser enjuiciado - El Nuevo Diario
El expresidente de la Conmebol y exvicepresidente de la FIFA Eugenio Figueredo permanecerá en prisión en Uruguay durante su juicio, bajo cargos de fraude y lavado de activos, informaron este jueves a la AFP fuentes judiciales en Montevideo. Figueredo, que arribó a su país extraditado por Suiza en la mañana del ...
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Costa Rica
Celebran feria en honor al nacatamal - El Nuevo Diario
La comunidad indígena de Xiu-Sutiava, en el municipio de León, celebró hoy una feria navideña en honor a nacatamal, una comida típica ancestral. Durante la primera Feria del Nacatamal Navideño, promovido por la Alcaldía de León, ubicada a 90 kilómetros al noroeste de Managua, participaron 20 familias de esa comunidad aborigen ...
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Bolivia
La década perdida
Un informe del Instituto Boliviano de Comercio Exterior (IBCE) dice que la caída del precio de las exportaciones deja al comercio exterior de Bolivia en las mismas condiciones que en 2003, con un déficit de US$ 700 millones. ...