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Guatemala El Salvador
Banco Industrial planea hacer más inversiones en El Salvador
La institución financiera ya cuenta con ocho agencias en el país. Su plan es afianzar su presencia en los mercados de El Salvador, Honduras y Guatemala.
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Cina USA Ghana
1st quarter trade volume between Ghana-China hits US$1.8bn
The volume of trade between Ghana and China from January to March this year (2016) has hit 1.8 billion dollars, making Ghana the 6th highest trade partner of China on the African continent, the Chinese Ambassador to Ghana, Madam Sun Boahong has said. According to her, Ghana’s export volume was ...
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Giappone
French parliament adopts contentious labor reforms
The French parliament on Thursday definitively adopted a set of contentious labor reforms that sparked months of violent protests over a perceived threat to cherished workers’ rights. Prime Minister Manuel Valls used a constitutional tool to force the legislation through parliament three times to keep rebel Socialist backbenchers from sinking ...
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USA Giappone
Newly developed wheel converts any bicycle into an electric vehicle
Right off the bat, Michael Burtov said he and his team at technology startup GeoOrbital did not re-invent the wheel. But, in a sense, they did. After two years and five prototypes, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based startup has developed a new type of electric bicycle wheel that steered the company into ...
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Cina USA Giappone Australia
Komatsu to buy U.S. mining equipment maker Joy Global
Komatsu Ltd. said that it has agreed to acquire U.S. mining machinery maker Joy Global Inc. for $2.9 billion. Joy Global, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has production bases in the United States, China, Australia and elsewhere. Annual sales totaled $3.2 billion in the year that ended in October 2015. Komatsu ...
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Giappone
Hurdles mar Japan’s renewable energy equation
At Yamakura Dam, 45 km southeast of Tokyo, construction workers are screwing together a 51,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of floating solar panels. When completed, it will be one of the world’s largest floating solar projects. Roughly 30 percent of the work on the project in Chiba Prefecture is complete, and when ...
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Giappone
Japan’s fiscal health likely to worsen after tax hike delay
The government is likely to project a deteriorating primary balance deficit in fiscal 2018 after delaying the second stage of a consumption tax hike, government sources said Friday. The hike, earlier planned for April, will now take place in October 2019. Cabinet Office projections due to be released next week ...
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Abu Dhabi's economy said to be worth $53.4bn at end-2015
New official estimates say GDP grew by more than 7% with non-oil economy boosting performance
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Giappone Singapore
Japan cranks up pitch for shinkansen in Singapore
Japan intensified its shinkansen sales pitch in Singapore on Friday, hoping to acquire an edge in its bid for the Malaysia-Singapore high speed rail project. Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Keiichi Ishii discussed the bullet train system at a meeting with Singapore Senior Minister of State for Transport Josephine ...
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Giappone
Dollar retreats to ¥106.10 on BOJ denial of ‘helicopter money’
The dollar fell back to levels a tad above ¥106 in Tokyo trading on Friday, after Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda reiterated that the BOJ will not use “helicopter money” as a monetary stimulus. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥106.10-10, down from ¥106.82-83 at the same time ...