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Giappone
Toyota to invest in Uber, offer leasing to drivers
Toyota Motor Corp. said it is making a strategic investment in Uber Technologies Inc. as automakers race to align themselves with the fast-growing ride-hailing industry. The companies will also work together on offering auto leases to Uber drivers. The investment is small, and Toyota has no interest in taking a ...
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Giappone
Tokyo stocks jump on yen’s fall, higher U.S. market
Stocks staged a rebound on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday, shored up by the yen’s drop against the dollar and an overnight rise in U.S. equities. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 258.59 points, or 1.57 percent, to end at 16,757.35. On Tuesday, the key market gauge fell 155.84 points. ...
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USA Giappone
Sony climbs as games outlook makes up for earthquake damage
Sony Corp. shares rose as investors ignored a weak profit forecast, looking instead to the company’s long-term prospects in entertainment and sensors needed for driverless cars and other emerging products. In New York, shares rose even after the company issued an annual profit outlook that fell short of analysts’ estimates ...
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Giappone
Nomura cuts executive pay to three-year low as Daiwa backs 9.2% increase
Nomura Holdings Inc. cut pay for its top executives by 18 percent to the lowest level in three years after profit at Japan’s biggest brokerage slumped and losses abroad swelled. The seven executives, including Chief Executive Officer Koji Nagai, were awarded an average of ¥166.4 million in base salary, bonuses ...
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Giappone
Toyota to build new plant in Malaysia
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it will build a new plant in Malaysia to meet the future domestic vehicle demand expected to increase in line with the country’s economic growth. Toyota plans to start operations at the new plant in early 2019, with its annual production capacity expected to be ...
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Giappone
Diet OKs bill to regulate virtual currency exchanges
The Diet enacts a law on operators of virtual currency exchanges to help ensure better protection for users. The post Diet OKs bill to regulate virtual currency exchanges appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Giappone
The benefits and trials of Abenomics
It has been almost three and a half years since the administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe launched its economic policy known as Abenomics. What I would like to suggest here is that Abenomics is moving in the right direction and that real successes have been achieved. Ever since 2009 ...
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Giappone
‘Womenomics’ continues as a work in progress
In 1999, we proposed that part of the solution to Japan’s demographic crisis is higher female labor participation, which — at 57 percent at the time — was among the lowest in the developed world. Japan stood out from its developed country peers with its pronounced “M-curve” of female employment, ...
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Dubai's Shuaa Capital says no business impact from lay-offs
Financial firm says six employees have been axed, most of them in support roles
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Portogallo
Ministro da Economia: greve dos estivadores resolve-se “com diálogo e trabalho”
Frisando que as greves no Porto de Lisboa já duram há quatro anos, Caldeira Cabral diz que “não há soluções fáceis” e questiona: “E se as há e são tão fáceis e tão diretas, então porque não se resolveram nos últimos quatro anos?”