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Myriad closes Japan hedge fund as Abenomics disappoints
Myriad Asset Management has closed down a Japan-focused hedge fund less than a year after opening it, after changing its view on the government’s ability to end deflation through stimulus, said a person with knowledge of the matter. Myriad started the Japan Reflation Fund in March 2015 to tap opportunities ...
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Tokyo stocks fall for sixth straight session on firmer yen
Stocks extended their losing streak to a sixth session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, dragged down by selling of export-oriented issues due to the yen’s strength against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 40.66 points, or 0.25 percent, to end at 16,106.72. On Monday, the key market gauge ...
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USA Giappone
Facebook loses first round in lawsuit over storing biometric data
Facebook lost the first round in a court fight against some of its users who sued the social networking company, alleging it unlawfully collected and stored users’ biometric data derived from their faces in photographs. The judge presiding over the case in a California federal court on Thursday turned down ...
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Giappone Singapore
Sony, Samsung named in U.S. patent-infringement probe
The U.S. International Trade Commission said Thursday it will investigate 18 electronics makers, including Japan’s Sony Corp. and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co., over alleged patent infringements related to portable electronic devices, such as smartphones. The investigation is based on a complaint filed in March by Creative Technology Ltd. of ...
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USA Giappone
Private cash is answer to U.S. bullet train plan
It took years of lawsuits and political battles for California to finally break ground last year on America’s first bullet train, which aims to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2029. High-speed rail advocates had hoped the line, supported by more than $13 billion in state and federal money, ...
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Japan’s monetary base rose 2.8% in April
The nation’s monetary base stood at ¥386.19 trillion at the end of April, up 2.8 percent from a month earlier, the Bank of Japan said Friday. It was a record high for the fifth straight month for the monetary base, or the combined balance of currency in circulation and commercial ...
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Toyota plant shutdowns due to quakes end as production of key parts resumes
Toyota Motor Corp. resumed production Friday at its domestic assembly plants that had remained idle since a series of strong earthquakes in southwestern Japan in mid-April disrupted parts supplies, company officials said. The resumption means that all of the automaker’s 30 vehicle assembly lines in the country are now back ...
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New Yorkers to pay for disposable plastic and paper bags
New Yorkers will soon have to pay for disposable plastic and paper bags in a city that consumes billions of them each year. The City Council voted on Thursday to require shoppers to pay 5 cents for each disposable bag they use in certain stores. The measure, adopted after heated ...
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USA Giappone
Never-completed TVA nuclear plant that cost $4 billion for sale
America’s largest public utility is selling a never-completed nuclear plant that has cost more than $4 billion dollars over the past four decades. The Tennessee Valley Authority board voted Thursday to declare the Bellefonte nuclear plant near Hollywood, Alabama, surplus. The site includes two partially finished nuclear reactors, office buildings, ...
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Non oil EAU rallenta
EMIRATI ARABI UNITI Dubai. 06/05/16. L'economia non oil del settore privato degli EAU rallenta ad aprile dopo il balzo in avanti di marzo. A rallentare l'indice economico la stagnazione dell'occupazione. È la seconda Leggi tutto...