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Giappone
Japan’s GDP to rise by 2.59% under TPP, government says
The government said Thursday it expects the recently sealed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact to boost gross domestic product by ¥13.6 trillion or 2.59 percent from fiscal 2014 in its first estimate since the deal was struck in October. Growth will be driven by exports and investment is to be facilitated ...
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Giappone
Abe, BOJ urge higher wages; businesses unconvinced
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda on Thursday applied fresh pressure on companies to do their part in putting a sustained end to deflation by boosting wages and investment. But the head of the nation’s biggest business lobby offered only conditional support, underscoring the difficulty ...
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Giappone
JPMorgan says Japan Inc. must prepare for yen at less than ¥100 a dollar
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is making two contrarian calls: first that the yen will strengthen toward 100 per dollar and second that such a rally will not destroy the world’s third-largest economy. Tohru Sasaki, Tokyo-based head of Japan markets research, sees a gain to 110 next year from about 121 ...
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Giappone
Nasdaq to delist company run by drug price gouger Shkreli
One of the biotech companies run by Martin Shkreli, the reviled drug price-gouger charged with securities fraud last week, was informed Wednesday that its stock will be delisted by Nasdaq because of Shkreli’s arrest and other issues. Meanwhile, KaloBios Pharmaceuticals Inc. also is dealing with the abrupt resignation of its ...
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Giappone Ghana
Kyoto entrepreneur finds business sweet spot with cocoa from Indonesia
Keiichi Yoshino, a 34-year-old operator of chocolate shops in Kyoto, never dreamed he would become a chocolatier. His epiphany came in a coffeehouse in South Korea in 2010. Looking at a map of global cocoa production areas, the former financial analyst wondered why Japan largely depends on Ghana for cocoa ...
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Giappone
More flights, bigger planes, fingers crossed for weather as airlines brace for holiday crush
Airlines are shifting the timing of thousands of flights, even adding dozens of redeyes, as they try to avoid delays while hauling millions of passengers from now through the Christmas weekend. Success or failure could all depend on the weather, and Mother Nature isn’t making it easy on airlines. Rain ...
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Brasile
ANP assina 25 contratos de concessão de áreas para exploração de petróleo e gás
A Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis (ANP) promoveu hoje (23) a assinatura de 25 contratos de concessão de um total de 37 blocos arrematados na 13ª Rodada de Licitações de áreas para exploração e produção de petróleo e gás natural nas bacias sedimentares do país, ocorrida no ...
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Brasile El Salvador
RadioShack entregó 13 aguinaldos de $300 en esta Navidad
Fueron 13 los ganadores de la promoción de Navidad del Futuro de Radio Shack, donde se rifaron 13 aguinaldos de $300 cada uno, canjeable por productos de la tienda. Los clientes tuvieron que realizar compras de $ 49.99 en adelante y llenar un cupón con sus datos para participar en la ...
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Brasile Angola Bolivia Cuba
Corrupción y sobornos hunden mandato de Rousseff en Brasil
RIO DE JANEIRO. Una economía que día a día se hunde poco a poco y un escándalo de corrupción de proporciones gigantescas no sólo amenazan con derrocar a la presidenta de Brasil, Dilma Rousseff, sino con echar abajo el legado del gobernante Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) y su lucha ...
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Brasile El Salvador
Resultados de la economía generan dos visiones enfrentadas
El Banco Central de Reserva (BCR) publicó los resultados económicos al tercer trimestre del año. La entidad destacó un crecimiento del 2.5 %, mayor inversión, más empleo y una fortaleza en la recuperación del país. Sin embargo este análisis choca con el que hicieron días antes varias organizaciones, criticando una ...