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Giappone
Japan’s ¥135 trillion pension fund boosts infrastructure weighting
Japan’s ¥135 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund is building up its alternative investment department after raising bets on infrastructure projects more than 10-fold to secure higher returns than low-yielding bonds. The world’s largest retiree fund has boosted staff in its alternative investment section, formed last year, to five people, Shinichirou ...
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Giappone
Tightest job market since 1992 may weigh on Japan bonds
The nation’s most severe labor shortage in almost quarter of a century will support the central bank’s inflation target and weaken appetite for already low-yielding bonds. The Bank of Japan’s quarterly tankan survey on Monday showed it has not been so difficult for employers to fill vacancies since 1992, and ...
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Giappone
Abe’s deflation fight has automated foes on nearly every Tokyo street corner
They stand resolutely on street corners around Japan, proclaiming that deflation has not been vanquished, much as the Abe administration and the central bank have tried. They are the country’s 5 million vending machines, and as anyone who has visited can attest, they are seemingly everywhere: from the capital’s vast ...
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Giappone
BOJ gains confidence in Japan’s economy; cheap oil a threat
Bank of Japan officials are gaining confidence in the resilience of the nation’s economy, while keeping a close eye on the impact of low oil prices on inflation expectations, according to people familiar with the central bank’s discussions. Indicators have improved in the run-up to the BOJ’s policy decision due ...
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Cuba
“El convenio petrolero debe ser revisado”
El convenio petrolero entre Venezuela y Nicaragua debería ser revisado por la nueva Asamblea que tomará vigencia el próximo 5 de enero en Caracas, asegura el economista venezolano Luis Oliveros, aunque no cree que sea una las primeras medidas que tomen los diputados de la MUD. “Muchos en Venezuela esperamos ...
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Cuba
Sector turismo espera generar US$450 millones en 2015 - El Nuevo Diario
El ritmo de visitas de extranjeros que ha recibido Nicaragua hasta la fecha tiene optimistas a los empresarios del sector, de que podrán cumplir las metas que se habían planteado en visitas e ingresos. El sector empresarial cree que se cumplirá la meta de este año en relación con la llegada ...
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Australia
The un-Australian boomerang market
WE’VE all heard about selling wine to France. Now a foreign firm is beating us at our own game — selling boomerangs to Australia. And these actually work.
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Colombia Bolivia
Fiscalía investiga a 66 dirigentes vinculados a Manuel Burga
Sesenta y seis personas vinculadas al fútbol profesional, amateur, comisiones de arbitraje y ligas departamentales son investigadas por la Fiscalía de Delitos de Lavado de Activos, por sus presuntos vinculos ilícitos con el ex presidente de la Federación Peruana de fútbol Manuel Burga Seoane. PUEDES VER: Manuel Burga presionó a dirigente de ...
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Brasile
Brasil autoriza ingreso de mandarina, tangelo y chía
El Ministerio de Agricultura, Pecuaria y Abastecimiento (Mapa) de Brasil publicó ayer las resoluciones 28 y 29 que aprueban los requisitos fitosanitarios para la exportación de los cítricos mandarina y tangelo, y de la semilla chía del Perú a ese mercado. La autorización se produce tres años después de intensas coordinaciones ...
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Angola
Aumenta o valor semanal das transacções de divisas
O Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA) anunciou ontem em comunicado que, na semana passada, vendeu divisas avaliadas em 356,1 milhões de dólares no mercado primário, a uma taxa de câmbio média de 135,987 kwanzas