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Giappone
Three ex-Toshiba heads likely to escape charges over accounting fraud
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s special investigation unit believes it will be difficult to charge three former presidents of electronics and machinery giant Toshiba Corp. over the firm’s high-profile accounting scandal, sources said Friday. The unit informed the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission of its view, according to the ...
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Giappone
Government, BOJ reaffirm continued cooperation to stabilize financial markets
The government and the Bank of Japan reaffirmed Friday that they will continue to work closely to stabilize financial markets, following Britain’s decision last month to leave the European Union. “Financial markets seem to have yet to fully regain stability,” Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Masatsugu Asakawa told reporters ...
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USA Giappone
Japan-U.S. research team develops toxic gas sensor that can connect to smartphones
Groups of researchers in Japan and the U.S. have jointly developed a material — a coated carbon nanotube — that could realize a low-cost, easy-to-carry toxic gas sensor that works with smartphones. The researchers at the National Institute for Material Science (NIMS) in Ibaraki Prefecture and the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Giappone
Nomura’s Asia execution chief Watanabe to leave after 27 years
Nomura Holdings Inc.’s Joji Watanabe, head of execution services for the Asia-Pacific region, will leave Japan’s biggest brokerage after 27 years. The Tokyo-based company appointed Paul Beresford as the head of execution services in Asia excluding Japan, joining from Instinet, where he was head of program sales trading, according to ...
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Giappone
Tokyo stocks fall as yen strengthens
Stocks fell for the fourth straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, bowing to selling activated by the yen’s strengthening against the dollar and a drop in long-term interest rates. The 225-issue Nikkei average slumped 169.26 points, or 1.11 percent, to end at 15,106.98. On Thursday, the key ...
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Giappone
Dollar easier around ¥100.60 in Tokyo before U.S. jobs report
The dollar softened to levels around ¥100.60 in Tokyo trading Friday, dampened by Japanese shares’ continued weakness and some speculative moves ahead of the release later in the day of U.S. jobs data for June. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.61-61, down from ¥101.02-02 at the same time ...
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Giappone
Wages in Japan down for first time in 11 months
The average monthly wage among workers in Japan in May fell 0.2 percent from a year before to ¥267,933, down for the first time in 11 months, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Friday. The drop happened because the proportion of part-time workers in the total workforce rose 0.18 ...
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Giappone
Shoppers tighten purse strings, making Japan retailers see red
Japan’s discount-seeking shoppers drove some retailers into the red last quarter as an uncertain economic outlook persuaded consumers to tighten their purse strings. Supermarkets and clothing stores will probably cut prices more to spur sluggish sales, which caused Aeon Co., the nation’s biggest retailer by sales, to report its worst ...
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Canada
« L’entreprise doit se réinventer »
L’avenir de l’entreprise ne passe pas forcément par plus d’efficacité, de rapidité, d’heures passées au travail, explique Victoria De Belilovsky, responsable marketing chez Ippon Technologies. Elle doit s’appuyer sur la richesse des personnalités de ses salariés.
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Brasile Portogallo
Presidente da CNI defende mudanças previdenciárias e nas leis trabalhistas
Michel Temer se reuniu com mais de 100 empresários durante duas horas na sede da Confederação Nacional da IndústriaAntonio Cruz/ Agência Brasil Após mais de duas horas de reunião com o presidente interino Michel Temer e com cerca de 100 empresários do Comitê de Líderes da Mobilização Empresarial pela ...