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Thailandia
Auto sales seen rising 4%
Total domestic car sales are expected to rise for the first time in five years in 2017, by 4.06 percent to 800,000 units, Toyota Motor Corp's Thai unit said on Tuesday, citing new models and strong government spending among factors.
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Thailandia
SET falls 4.67 to 1,585.89 at opening
Thai stocks opened down 0.29% at the start of trade this morning.
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Giappone
Diet enacts extra budget for disaster relief and defense
The Diet has enacted an extra budget worth ¥622.5 billion for fiscal 2016 through March to provide disaster relief and increase defense spending. The third supplementary budget for the current fiscal year includes ¥195.5 billion for areas hit by powerful typhoons and earthquakes in 2016 and ¥170.6 billion to bolster ...
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Giappone
JAL suffers profit drop, leaves full-year forecast unchanged
Japan Airlines Co. said its net profit dropped in the nine months to December due to a slump in income from international flights, but the carrier left its full-year forecast unchanged. JAL posted a net profit of ¥108.3 billion, down 24.6 percent from the same period the year before. Revenue ...
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Giappone
Canon CFO says investing in Toshiba’s chip business ‘difficult’
Canon Inc. views it as difficult to invest in Toshiba Corp.’s flash memory business because the company already has a number of investment projects going on and sees little time left to assess its property, Canon Chief Financial Officer Toshizo Tanaka said Tuesday. Speaking at a news conference to report ...
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Giappone
Nintendo’s third quarter profit jumps on Pokemon game sales
Nintendo Co.’s third-quarter profit more than doubled from a year earlier on healthy sales of Pokemon game software, the company said Tuesday. Nintendo, which makes Super Mario games and will start selling the Switch console March 3, reported a better-than-expected October-December profit of ¥64.7 billion ($569 million), up from ¥29.1 ...
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Giappone
BOJ lifts growth forecasts but warns of ‘uncertainty’
The Bank of Japan hiked its economic growth forecasts on Tuesday, citing an improved global outlook and a weaker yen, but the country’s finance chief warned of “uncertainty” caused by the arrival of Donald Trump in the White House. After its first meeting of the year, the BOJ also held ...
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Giappone
Big biz CEOs push back hard against Trump’s temporary immigration ban
CEOs of some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting back against President Donald Trump’s temporary immigration ban, calling it un-American and bad for business. The heads of Apple, Ford and Goldman Sachs said they don’t support the executive order the president signed last week, which bans immigrants from seven ...
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Giappone
Dollar tumbles to ¥113.50 amid uproar over Trump policy
The dollar tumbled to levels around ¥113.50 in Tokyo trading late Tuesday amid spreading international uproar over U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.52-53, down from ¥114.70-71 at the same time Monday. The euro was unchanged at $1.0699-0700, while plunging to ¥121.46-47 from ...
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Giappone
Industrial output up 0.5 % in December on solid auto production
Industrial output rose 0.5 percent in December from November, lifted by robust production growth in transport equipment, government data showed Tuesday amid hopes for continued recovery. The government maintained its basic assessment, saying industrial production shows signs of improving. The index of output at factories and mines stood at 100.4 ...