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Giappone
Abe flags supplementary budget as business responds to Kyushu quakes
As bureaucrats and business executives attempt to gauge the economic cost of the quakes in Kyushu, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday raised the possibility of rapidly compiling a supplementary budget to render assistance to the area. “The government would like to take every necessary measure” to assist quake-hit areas ...
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Giappone
Dollar weak around ¥108 in Tokyo on risk aversion
The dollar was weak around ¥108 in Tokyo trading on Monday as investors moved to reduce risk exposure amid drops in crude oil and stock prices. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥108.21-22, down from ¥109.30-30 at the same time Friday. The euro was at $1.1301-1302, up from $1.1258-1259, ...
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Giappone
Yen’s rise, oil’s fall pull Tokyo down
Stocks dived on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, dragged down by a slump in crude oil prices and the yen’s rise against the dollar. The 225-issue Nikkei average shed 572.08 points, or 3.4 percent, to close at 16,275.95. On Friday, the key market gauge lost 63.02 points. The Topix ...
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Giappone
Japan Diet panel resumes debates on TPP
A House of Representatives special committee on Monday resumed deliberations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade deal and relevant bills for the first time in 10 days. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other ministers attended the debates at the Lower House committee on the TPP. The Democratic Party said that ...
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Giappone
Japan quants rush to please BOJ and excite normal investors
A man walks into a tailor, orders a custom-made suit and then says he’s bound by his own rules to only buy half of it. Sell the rest to someone else, he says. That, essentially, is the conundrum facing S&P Dow Jones Indices, except that instead of a suit, it’s ...
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USA Giappone
Sumitomo Mitsui hires banking veteran Gelber to lead U.S. push
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. has formed an investment-banking group in the United States, part of a push to expand its mergers advisory business even as competitors from Nomura Holdings Inc. to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. move to curtail costs. The Tokyo-based bank’s brokerage unit hired Randy Gelber from Barclays ...
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Giappone Iran
Oil prices plummet after high-stakes talks among producers fail
Oil plunged Monday after the world’s top producers failed to reach agreement on capping output to ease global oversupply, as tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia stymied an anticipated deal. Prices tumbled more than 5 percent in early Asian trade after top producer Saudi Arabia said a deal must include ...
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Spagna Perù El Salvador
Delincuentes roban mototaxi y luego llaman al dueño para extorsionarlo en V.E.S. | VIDEO
Un grupo de delincuentes robaron la mototaxi de un hombre en Villa el Salvador y después lo llamaron para extorsionarlo y pedirle dinero a cambio del vehículo, su único instrumento de trabajo. PUEDE VER: Delincuentes desatan balacera tras asaltar tráiler en SMP| VIDEO Wilmer Modesto Soto (26) denunció la extorsión ante la Policía ...
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Paraguay
La fiebre de los autos eléctricos se instala de a poco en Paraguay
Más de 50 autos eléctricos ya circulan por las calles paraguayas. La cifra puede parecer ínfima, pero es bastante relevante si se tiene en cuenta que nuestro país aún no presenta una infraestructura amigable para esta clase de vehículos y así propiciar su utilización masiva, pese a que ...
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Spagna Ecuador Nigeria
La UE desbloquea ayuda para Ecuador por terremoto - El Nuevo Diario
La Comisión Europea anunció este lunes una "ayuda inicial" de un millón de euros para Ecuador en donde un terremoto de 7.8 grados de magnitud que sacudió la costa el sábado por la noche dejó 272 muertos y más de 2,000 heridos. "La UE desbloqueó este lunes un millón de euros ...