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Giappone
Abe, Cameron, Merkel vow to ensure financial market stability in wake of Brexit vote
The leaders of Japan, Britain and Germany agreed Thursday that the Group of Seven major countries will do their best to ensure global growth and financial market stability following British voters' decision last week to leave the European Union. The post Abe, Cameron, Merkel vow to ensure financial market stability in ...
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Giappone
Tesla driver killed in crash with truck first U.S. fatality using autopilot
The first U.S. fatality using self-driving technology took place in May when the driver of a Tesla S sports car operating the vehicle’s “Autopilot” automated driving system died after a collision with a truck in Florida, federal officials said Thursday. The government is investigating the design and performance of Tesla’s ...
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USA Giappone
Broadband to get faster via Japan-Oregon cable
An undersea cable backed by Google and Asian companies aimed at boosting trans-Pacific broadband was put into service on Thursday, the consortium announced. The 5,600-mile (9,000-km) FASTER Cable System is aimed at meeting the growing demand for broadband Internet connections between North America and Asia. “From the very beginning of ...
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Cina
The infrastructure of power
AIIB careful with Avicenna CHINA’s growing global clout can be unsettling for the incumbents who must make room for it. At the same time, China’s recent financial tumult has been unnerving for the investors exposed to it. This combination of vastness and vulnerability has left some people afraid of China and ...
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Regno Unito Italia
From folly to fragmentation
THE bleeding stopped on the third day: sterling steadied and stockmarkets perked up on June 28th, after two sessions of carnage (see article). By then Britain’s vote on June 23rd to leave the European Union had taken a heavy toll (see chart). The shares of Lloyds and the Royal Bank ...
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Portogallo
Portugal é o país da zona euro com mais pagamentos com cartão face ao PIB
Percentagem ascendeu a 35,5%, bastante acima da média de 13,4% da área do euro
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USA
Netanyahu hails partnership with the United States
Netanyahu thanks the United States for its friendship with Israel but also for “making the world a much better place”.
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Cina
From noodles to poodles
Pots of money no more? SOARING sales of instant noodles have for years been a reliable indicator of the insatiable appetites of China’s rising consumer class. China is the world’s biggest market for these flash-fried snacks infused with monosodium glutamate (MSG), a chemical that makes flavourless food more palatable. Locals slurp ...
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USA Giappone
From clout to rout
IT FEELS indelicate to raise it at a time like this, but European business has a bigger problem on its plate than Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. After a decade of stagnation the continent’s firms have suffered an alarming decline in their global clout. Europe’s slide down the ...
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USA
Ticking all the boxes
Clicking your rights away IF A prize were to be awarded for the world’s clunkiest prose, the paragraphs of indecipherable text that make up “terms of use” agreements would surely win. These legal thickets are designed to protect companies from litigious online shoppers and users of web services. Some firms require ...