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Bolivia Panama
The neglect of agricultural sector impacts exports
Before the recent signing of the partial trade agreement with Trinidad and Tobago Panama, local exporters say that the country has enough foreign market opportunities, so they are asking the authorities to focus more on improving the productive sectors.
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Giappone
Japan corporate bankruptcies for January-June lowest since 1990
The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan and total liabilities left by failed firms hit their lowest level for a first-half year since 1990 during the nation’s bubble economy, Tokyo Shoko Research Ltd. said Friday. The number of failed firms dropped 6.5 percent from the previous year to 4,273, while ...
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Giappone Regno Unito
Yamagata brewer Dewazakura wins top sake prize at London wine competition
Dewazakura Dewanosato, a sake from Yamagata Prefecture, took the top prize in its category Thursday at the International Wine Challenge, one of the world’s largest wine competitions, in London. This is the second time Dewazakura Sake Brewery Co., based in Tendo, has won the IWC Champion Sake award since winning ...
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Giappone
Three ex-Toshiba heads likely to escape charges over accounting fraud
The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office’s special investigation unit believes it will be difficult to charge three former presidents of electronics and machinery giant Toshiba Corp. over the firm’s high-profile accounting scandal, sources said Friday. The unit informed the Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission of its view, according to the ...
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Giappone
Government, BOJ reaffirm continued cooperation to stabilize financial markets
The government and the Bank of Japan reaffirmed Friday that they will continue to work closely to stabilize financial markets, following Britain’s decision last month to leave the European Union. “Financial markets seem to have yet to fully regain stability,” Vice Finance Minister for International Affairs Masatsugu Asakawa told reporters ...
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USA Giappone
Japan-U.S. research team develops toxic gas sensor that can connect to smartphones
Groups of researchers in Japan and the U.S. have jointly developed a material — a coated carbon nanotube — that could realize a low-cost, easy-to-carry toxic gas sensor that works with smartphones. The researchers at the National Institute for Material Science (NIMS) in Ibaraki Prefecture and the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Giappone
Nomura’s Asia execution chief Watanabe to leave after 27 years
Nomura Holdings Inc.’s Joji Watanabe, head of execution services for the Asia-Pacific region, will leave Japan’s biggest brokerage after 27 years. The Tokyo-based company appointed Paul Beresford as the head of execution services in Asia excluding Japan, joining from Instinet, where he was head of program sales trading, according to ...
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Giappone
Tokyo stocks fall as yen strengthens
Stocks fell for the fourth straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Friday, bowing to selling activated by the yen’s strengthening against the dollar and a drop in long-term interest rates. The 225-issue Nikkei average slumped 169.26 points, or 1.11 percent, to end at 15,106.98. On Thursday, the key ...
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Giappone
Dollar easier around ¥100.60 in Tokyo before U.S. jobs report
The dollar softened to levels around ¥100.60 in Tokyo trading Friday, dampened by Japanese shares’ continued weakness and some speculative moves ahead of the release later in the day of U.S. jobs data for June. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥100.61-61, down from ¥101.02-02 at the same time ...
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Giappone
Wages in Japan down for first time in 11 months
The average monthly wage among workers in Japan in May fell 0.2 percent from a year before to ¥267,933, down for the first time in 11 months, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Friday. The drop happened because the proportion of part-time workers in the total workforce rose 0.18 ...