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Giappone
Japan’s Economy Grows Again, in Longest Streak in 11 Years
An uptick in domestic consumer and business spending suggests a rising optimism that the good times will continue. Government spending helped, too.
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USA
Trade Commission Will Hear Solar Tariff Case, and Nafta Talks Begin
American affiliates of solar equipment manufacturers try to counteract low import prices. Negotiations between the United States, Canada and Mexico are likely to be tense.
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Nigeria
Don’t distract investors with probes, LCCI tells N’Assembly
Anna Okon The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry has advised the National Assembly to apply greater discretion while exercising its investigative powers so as to avoid distraction to private sector players, erosion of investors’ confidence and collateral damage to the economy. In a statement signed by the Director-General, LCCI, ...
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Nigeria
Ozubulu massacre: Let the police do their work
Eze Onyekpere The Nigeria Police Force is established by Section 214 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999. The powers and duties conferred on the police by law are essentially for the maintenance of law and order and as an executive agency, to give vent to the ...
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Giappone
Japan beats forecasts with 4% annualised GDP growth
Longest unbroken streak in a decade and possible lifeline for foundering Abenomics
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Cina USA
Trump aides seek to placate China ahead of trade move
Washington seeks Beijing’s help on North Korea while launching IP rights investigation
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India
India book injunction stirs freedom of speech fears
Court bars sales of an appraisal of yoga-televangelist and Modi ally Baba Ramdev
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Malta
Major banks’ interim results
It is the season of mid-year announcements when listed companies publish their interim results. Malta’s two major banks, BOV and HSBC, recently announced their interim results. Shareholders of these banks are eagerly drawing their conclusions on the published figures. BOV registered a pre-tax profit of €68.1 million for the period January ...
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Spagna
Absurd logic
Edward Caruana Galizia’s ‘Please choose wisely’ (Talking Point, August 8) is very good advice to the Nationalist Party members who shall be voting to elect their new leader. His mistake or, rather, error in this article is that religion has nothing to do with politics. In his opinion, politicians who are ...
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USA
US economic expansion to last another two years or more
The US economic expansion will last at least another two years, according to a majority of economists polled by Reuters who also forecast growth will not accelerate the way the Trump administration has predicted. The recovery from the devastating 2007-2009 financial crisis has been unusually lengthy. The latest growth stretch has ...