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Giappone
Tokyo stocks fall back on weaker U.S. market, yen’s rise
Stocks turned lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, weighed down by an overnight fallback in U.S. equities and the yen’s ascent. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 182.97 points, or 1.09 percent, to close at 16,627.25. On Thursday, the key market gauge gained 128.33 points. The Topix index of all ...
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Giappone
Takeda considering selling stake in chemicals unit to raise cash
Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. is exploring the sale of its majority stake in chemicals business Wako Pure Chemical Industries Ltd. as the drugmaker seeks to sell noncore assets to raise cash, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Takeda is working with advisers at Nomura Holdings Inc. to sell the ...
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Giappone
South Korean bank says North’s nuclear ambitions squeezed economy in 2015
North Korea’s economy last year is estimated to have contracted the most since 2007 as leader Kim Jong Un marshaled resources for nuclear tests and ballistic missile development. The gross domestic product of the totalitarian state fell 1.1 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, when it expanded 1 percent, ...
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Giappone Vietnam
Daikin to make air conditioners in Vietnam in ¥10 billion bet on growing demand
Daikin Industries Ltd. will open an air conditioner assembly plant in Vietnam in a ¥10 billion bet on growing demand there, informed sources have said. It will build the plant at an industrial complex near Hanoi. The plant will start production in early 2018 with an initial annual output of ...
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USA Giappone
First U.S. federal bitcoin securities fraud case ends in 18-month sentence
A Texas man who carried out what authorities said was the first federal bitcoin securities fraud to be prosecuted was sentenced on Thursday to 18 months in prison. Trendon Shavers, 33, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court by Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who said Shavers committed a serious crime but ...
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Nigeria
NDLEA arrests 63 drug couriers
National Drug Law E n f o r c e m e n t Agency, NDLEA, said it arrested 63 suspected drug traffickers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos between January and June this year. NDLEA declared that the suspects were arrested with 484.11kgs of drugs while suspected ...
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Iran Nigeria
Minister Seeks Collaboration With Iran On Power, Agriculture
Hajiya Aisha Abubakar, the Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Investment, has called on the Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran to invest in power and agriculture sectors. Abubakar made the call when Mr Morteza Zarchi, the Ambassador of Iran in Nigeria, paid her a courtesy visit in Abuja ...
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USA
Public-private partnership: Algeria among five African leading countries
WASHINGTON–Algeria numbers among the five African countries having invested the most in the public-private partnership projects (PPP) during past 15 years, according to the 2016 report on the economic development in Africa, released Thursday by the UNCTAD. Algeria is ranked fifth in terms of investment volume made as part ...
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Giappone Singapore
Japan makes pitch for high-speed train in Singapore
SINGAPORE - Japan intensified its sales pitch for the shinkansen bullet train in Singapore on Friday, hoping to give it an edge when tendering for the recently agreed Malaysia-Singapore high-speed rail project.
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Thailandia
SET down 1.03 points at opening
Thai stocks opened down 0.07% at the start of trade this morning.