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Giappone
Japan’s retail sales stall as Abe mulls delay to tax hike
The nation’s retail sales growth stalled, underscoring weakness in private consumption and increasing the likelihood that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will delay a sales-tax increase planned for next year. Sales were unchanged in April from the previous month, a government report showed Monday. The median forecast of economists surveyed by ...
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Giappone
Mizuho CEO says higher fee income will offset negative rates
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is counting on fee businesses to make up for lower returns from lending and bond investments in the wake of the Bank of Japan’s decision to adopt a negative interest-rate policy. “Noninterest income will grow significantly as we move into new businesses” in the negative-rate environment, ...
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Giappone
AirAsia gets $1 billion offer for its leasing company
AirAsia Bhd., the region’s biggest discount carrier, received an offer valued at about $1 billion to buy its aircraft-leasing company amid a surge in business in the continent. The company’s share prices rose to the highest level in more than a year. The airline intends to divest the business at ...
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USA Giappone
Toyota reportedly mulling buying Google’s robotics unit
Toyota Motor Corp. is in talks to buy Boston Dynamics, a robotics unit of Google Inc., news website Tech Insider has reported. Terms for the deal are not known, but Tech Insider quoted a source familiar with the matter as saying that the ink “is nearly dry.” Boston Dynamics was ...
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Giappone
Takata to rule out bankruptcy in seeking buyer funding
Takata Corp. has ruled out using bankruptcy as a way of mitigating liabilities from its record air bag recalls and is instead seeking buyers that could take a controlling stake and carry the company through its current crisis, according to a source with knowledge of the restructuring process. Lazard Ltd., ...
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Egitto
How to raise funding
Neveen El-Tahri, one of Egypt’s leading women entrepreneurs and a member of Young Presidents’ Organisation, outlines seven fundraising-related tips to help you secure continued growth of your business.
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Portogallo
Para Bloco e PCP, luta dos estivadores é exemplo a seguir
“Trabalhadores de todo o país: vede o exemplo dos estivadores, uni-vos e lutai!” Bem podia ser esta a palavra de ordem de bloquistas e comunistas, depois do acordo alcançado no Porto de Lisboa
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Portogallo
Lisboa abre em alta ligeira em sintonia com a Europa
A Euronext lisboeta abriu alta ligeira em sintonia com resto da Europa, num dia em que o preço do petróleo está em queda mas em contrapartida o euro está a desvalorizar, que anima as empresas exportadoras. O dia será mercado pelo feriado em Nova Iorque e em Londres.
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Spagna Italia
Madrid - Torna “Passione Italia” tra gastronomia, musica e turismo
Gastronomia, turismo, musica e tantissime attività per grandi e piccini. Anche quest’anno torna puntuale l’appuntamento con le eccellenze del made in Italy in Spagna: l’ottava edizione di “Passione Italia”, organizzata dalla Camera di Commercio italiana per la Spagna, in collaborazione con...
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USA
I cavalieri dell’apocalisse
Il Ku klux klan (Kkk) è la più antica organizzazione razzista degli Stati Uniti. Nel suo periodo di massima espansione ha avuto fino a cinque milioni di appartenenti. Oggi il loro numero è notevolmente diminuito: secondo il Southern Poverty Law Center sono tra gli ottomila e i diecimila. Ma nonostante ...