• Giappone

    Why SoftBank is spending ¥3.3 trillion on a U.K. chipmaker

    Inside nearly every smartphone, tablet, e-reader and smartwatch are tiny microprocessors that tell the machine what to do. Small pulses of energy move from a gadget’s battery through millions of tiny transistors, triggering commands and responses in nanoseconds, be it playing games, posting to Facebook, sending texts, or taking pictures. ...

  • Giappone

    Osaka Exchange adopts faster trading to lure more futures clients

    Osaka Exchange Inc. on Tuesday unveiled its new trading technology, the latest bourse to speed up in the hope of luring new, superfast customers. The revamp of the derivatives market’s systems comes 5½ years after the last major makeover launched the J-Gate platform. The upgrade speeds up the amount of ...

  • Turchia Giappone

    Nikkei gains 226 points as worries over Turkey recede

    Stocks climbed for the sixth straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, following the quick end to the attempted coup in Turkey and Wall Street’s continued rise. The Nikkei average advanced 225.46 points, or 1.37 percent, to finish at 16,723.31. On Friday, it rose 111.96 points. The Tokyo ...

  • Giappone

    New Air France-KLM head; Garuda named best crew; Jetstar’s summer menu

    New Air France-KLM head Air France-KLM has appointed Jean-Marc Janaillac as new chairman and chief executive officer in replacement of Alexandre de Juniac, effective July 4. Janaillac graduated from the HEC Business School and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. Since 2012, he has been chairman and CEO of Transdev, an international ...

  • Ghana

    BoG allows banks to lend above permitted ceiling

    As the volume of Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) increase due to bad investments made by banks, the Bank of Ghana (BoG) has revealed that it has in certain circumstances allowed banks to breach the single obligor limit to maintain financial stability. The move which is seen as contradiction to some financial ...

  • Brasile

    Brazil industrial leaders' expectations improve for second straight month

    The industrial business leaders' expectations have improved for the second consecutive month, a survey by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) has found. The Index of Expected Demand, which measures if business leaders expect demand levels to increase in the next six months, reached 52.9 points, according to the Industrial ...

  • Brasile

    Caixa vai financiar imóveis de até R$ 3 milhões

    A partir da próxima segunda-feira (25), os mutuários da Caixa Econômica Federal poderão financiar imóveis de até R$ 3 milhões, o dobro do limite de financiamento em vigor até agora, de R$ 1,5 milhão. A mudança foi anunciada hoje (18) pela instituição financeira e afeta somente operações de crédito do ...

  • Paraguay

    Chile desea potenciar nivel de intercambio comercial con el país

    Rafael Sabat, director de ProChile, quien se encuentra de visita en el país, manifestó que Paraguay es un mercado que ofrece posibilidades para el exportador chileno. “Sin dudas existe un ambiente propicio para estrechar los vínculos comerciales y mejorar las cifras de intercambio entre ambos países” sostuvo.

  • Nigeria

    Nigerian Shippers’ Council: Thank You For Your Intervention

    By Charles Mobete. We wish to use this opportunity to express our profound appreciation to Nigerian Shippers’ Council for the wonderful intervention and mediation between our company and a leading logistics company in Nigeria who wanted to use its weight to undermine our business with its arbitrary demurrage charges. We ...

  • Algeria

    «L’évasion fiscale demeurera conséquente»

    Le ministre des Finances, Hadji Baba Ammi, a indiqué la semaine dernière au Sénat que la loi de finances 2017 comportera de nouvelles dispositions permettant d’améliorer les taux de recouvrement fiscal. - D’après vous, quelles seront les mesures susceptibles de contribuer au relèvement des niveaux de collecte de l’impôt ? La ...