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Colombia
Fitch Ratings confirma grado de inversión a la petrolera colombiana Ecopetrol
La agencia de calificación de riesgo Fitch Ratings confirmó el grado de inversión "BBB" a la petrolera estatal Ecopetrol, la mayor empresa de Colombia, informó hoy la compañía.
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Brasile El Salvador
Banco Azul entrará al mercado de inversionistas
A partir de agosto los accionistas de Grupo Azul podrán retirar sus certificados para realizar transacciones en la Bolsa de Valores de El Salvador.
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USA
Apple sees iPhone sales fall again
Apple has reported a second consecutive quarter of falling iPhone sales, but the 15% drop was not as bad as analysts had feared. The US tech giant sold 40.4 million iPhones in its third quarter, slightly above forecasts of 40.02 million. Apple chief executive Tim Cook said the results reflected ...
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Giappone
Abe outlines ¥28 trillion stimulus package
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Wednesday that a new economic stimulus package will exceed ¥28 trillion, with a partial focus on agriculture. The massive package is partly seen as a bid to contain fallout from Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. The government is expected to boost spending on ...
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Giappone
Airbnb home-sharing war heats up in Japan
Sarah Takeda thought she had a good little business renting a traditional tatami-mat room in her house on Airbnb. But she and other hosts in Japan are learning the hard way that the home-sharing site’s fastest-growing market is also becoming the next flash point in a global battle over the ...
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Giappone
Favored by Obama, TPP deal draws ire at Dem, GOP conventions
It is 30 chapters long and almost nobody has read it, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is the unlikely villain at both political conventions. In Philadelphia this week, opponents interrupted Democratic National Convention speakers with chants of “No TPP” and expressed relief that Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton opposed ...
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Giappone
Tesla car on Autopilot was speeding at time of fatal Florida crash
Federal investigators say the driver who was killed when his Tesla sedan crashed while in self-driving mode was speeding just before hitting the side of a tractor-trailer. The National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Tuesday that the Tesla Model S was traveling at 74 mph in a ...
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Cina Giappone
Nissan snubs UAW pressure in Mississippi, refuses to meet French lawmaker
Officials at Nissan’s auto plant in Canton, Mississippi, refused to meet Tuesday with a French legislator seeking information on workers’ efforts to organize a union. Christian Hutin, a member of France’s National Assembly, was in Mississippi on a fact-finding mission on working conditions at Nissan, which is partly controlled by ...
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Giappone
Panel agrees to boost Japan’s minimum wage by ¥24
A government advisory panel on Tuesday agreed to recommend raising the country’s average minimum hourly wage by ¥24, or 3 percent, for fiscal 2016. The increase will bring the average minimum wage to ¥822 for the year that started in April. This marks the fifth straight year of double-digit rise ...
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Giappone
Libya army chief threatens to target tankers that try to reach warlord-held oil terminals under U.N. deal
Libya’s chief of staff on Tuesday threatened to target foreign oil tankers if they entered territorial waters, after a controversial deal was struck between the United Nations envoy and a militia commander in control of the oil terminals. The agreement between U.N. Envoy to Libya Martin Kobler and militia leader ...