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Giappone
ANA posts record profit in 2016, but JAL sees profits fall
ANA Holdings Inc. reported Friday a record group net profit in fiscal 2016 on lower fuel costs and cost-cutting efforts, while the nation’s other major carrier, Japan Airlines Co., saw its profit fall. In the business year ended March 31, ANA, the parent of All Nippon Airways Co., said its ...
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Giappone
Honda posts quarterly profit on lower recall costs
Honda Motor Co. reported Friday a ¥95.9 billion ($864 million) profit for January-March, a turnaround from the ¥93.4 billion loss it racked up a year earlier, as the automaker recovers from costs for a massive air bag recall. Quarterly sales rose 2.9 percent to ¥3.76 trillion ($33.9 billion) from ¥3.66 ...
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Giappone
Tokyo stocks fall further on position-adjustment selling
Stocks lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday, weighed down by selling to adjust positions ahead of Japan’s Golden Week holiday period. The 225-issue Nikkei average lost 55.13 points, or 0.29 percent, to end at 19,196.74. On Thursday, the key market gauge shed 37.56 points. The Topix index ...
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Giappone
At new Ginza shopping destination, fashionable, well-off spenders defy Japan’s tight-fisted reputation
Tight-fisted shoppers, unsteady economic growth and a shrinking population: Japan doesn’t exactly fit the image of a spending powerhouse these days. But you would never know it in Ginza — Tokyo’s answer to the Champs-Elysees or Fifth Avenue — where a new 13-story upscale mall is proving that Japan is ...
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Giappone
Nintendo eyes sale of 10 million Switch consoles in year to March
Nintendo expects to sell 10 million units of the new Switch game console over the next year, the company said Thursday, as it bets big on the successor to its poor-selling Wii U. The forecast came as Nintendo reported its net profit in the just ended business year soared more ...
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Giappone
Japan’s big three shippers see profitable year amid industry recovery
Japan’s big three shippers on Friday forecast a return to profit this fiscal year after last year’s losses, as they emerge from the worst global slump in the container business. The brighter outlook comes amid a gradual recovery in prices for shipping containers, which carry 90 percent of the world’s ...
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Giappone
British inventor takes flight in ‘Iron Man’ suit
British inventor Richard Browning lifted off from the shore of Vancouver Harbor on Thursday in a personal flight suit that inspired references to comic superhero “Iron Man.” Using thrusters attached to his arms and back, Browning flew in a circle and hovered a short distance from the ground, captivating attendees ...
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Brasile Giappone El Salvador
In world first, El Salvador bans metal mining
El Salvador on Thursday became the first country in the world to ban the mining of metals in what campaigners called a landmark move for environmental protection. The law bans “prospection, exploration, exploitation, extraction or processing of metallic minerals in El Salvador,” according to the text published Thursday in the ...
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Giappone
Japan’s March data on core inflation, output keep pressure on BOJ
The nation’s core consumer prices rose at a slower than expected pace in March and household spending fell more than estimated — worrying signs for the central bank that domestic demand won’t be strong enough to generate sustained inflation. Industrial product in March also fell more than predicted, but economists ...
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Italia
Il Ministro Alfano a Padova e Treviso per illustrare alle aziende le opportunità che offre la diplomazia economica
“La diplomazia economica è uno strumento fondamentale per migliorare ulteriormente la performance delle aziende italiane sui mercati internazionali, con immediate ripercussioni positive sull’economia e l’occupazione in Italia. Per questo motivo, ho deciso di intraprendere un programma di visite...