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Giappone
Tokyo stocks rise further on weaker yen
Stocks gained further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, drawing support from a weaker yen. The 225-issue Nikkei average climbed 133.25 points, or 0.71 percent, to close at 18,797.88. On Friday, the key market gauge gained 67.57 points. The Topix index of all first-section issues ended up 9.88 ...
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Giappone
Renesas may issue shares to fund war chest ahead of any buying spree: CEO
Automotive chip-maker Renesas Electronics Corp. is hungry for more acquisitions amid a wave of mega-mergers in the industry and may need to issue equity shares sometime in the future to build its war chest, Bunsei Kure, its CEO, said Monday. “The fragmented (automotive chip) market will be eventually consolidated into ...
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Giappone
Le Pen fears prompt Japanese to dump record amount of French bonds ahead of election
Japanese investors dumped a record amount of French bonds in February, rattled by the rising popularity of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the upcoming presidential election, data from the Ministry of Finance showed Monday. Japanese investors, who were major foreign buyers of French debt last year, sold ¥1.58 trillion ...
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Giappone
Japan to conduct second test to produce gas from methane hydrate
The trade ministry said Monday it has begun preparations for a second production test to extract methane gas from methane hydrate deposits off Japan’s central coast. The test is the first since Japan achieved the world’s first extraction of gas in 2013 from offshore deposits of methane hydrate, a frozen ...
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Giappone
At ¥2.8 trillion, current account surplus sets February record
Japan’s current account surplus rose 18.2 percent in February from a year before to ¥2.8 trillion, hitting the highest level for the month since comparable data became available in 1985, the Ministry of Finance said Monday. The result came against a median forecast of a ¥2.5 trillion surplus among 20 ...
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Giappone
Toshiba mulls selling unprofitable domestic TV business
Toshiba Corp. is reportedly considering selling its unprofitable domestic television business in an effort to boost its financial standing. The post Toshiba mulls selling unprofitable domestic TV business appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Australia Malta
‘Publish the Marsa Race Track agreement,’ PN tells government after TMIS story
The Nationalist Party has said that the government should publish the agreement for the new Marsa Race Track. The PN was reacting to a story published on The Malta Independent on Sunday, which revealed how the majority shareholder in the consortium that is to invest €18 million into the Marsa ...
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Malta
PPP agreement sees two state-owned reservoirs to be covered by solar panels
A public-private-partnership has been signed today paving the way for two state-owned reservoirs to be hosting some 13,000 square meters worth of solar panels, expected to produce roughly 1 megawatt of renewable energy each year.A new company has been set up, Malta Energy Ltd, which is to facilitate the provision ...
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Marocco Canada
Victoria market hawkers claim ‘flagrant abuse and grave violations’ of their rights
Victoria monti hawkers have filed a judicial protest following ‘flagrant abuse and grave violations’ of their rights.The issue surrounds their allocated space on Independence Square, Rabat, Gozo, and the local council’s attempts to move them to Piazza Savina.The protest was filed against the Rabat local council, the Director General of ...
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USA Malta
After TMI story, government publishes Marsa race track Memorandum of Understanding
The government today published the Memorandum of Understanding regarding a concession agreement for the Marsa Race Track, following a story published in The Malta Independent on Sunday yesterday, which was followed up by a statement this morning by the Nationalist Party.The publication comes after Pio Valletta, one of the Marsa ...