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Giappone
Nikkei slides nearly 400 points to hit 15-month low
Stocks plunged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange again Thursday, with the Nikkei closing at a 15-month low as investors took fright at the persistently low price of oil. The Nikkei ended down 398.93 points, or 2.43 percent, to close at 16,017.26, its weakest finish since October 2014. On Wednesday, it ...
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Giappone
Mizuho to sideline old boys’ network in next CEO selection vote
Mizuho Financial Group Inc. is doing away with the kind of opaque leadership selection process that’s common in the nation, vowing to ensure its next chief executive is chosen openly and fairly. The successor to CEO Yasuhiro Sato will be determined by a group of external directors rather than past ...
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Giappone
Convenience store sales rise 0.9%, spurred by coffee, ‘bento’ dishes
Sakes from convenience stores increased 0.9 percent in 2015 from the previous year on a same-store basis to around ¥9.3 trillion, an industry body said Wednesday. Including figures from new stores, the sales of 10 major chains climbed 4.7 percent to around ¥10.2 trillion, surpassing the ¥10 trillion mark for ...
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Giappone
FamilyMart stores to offer currency exchange
FamilyMart Co. said Wednesday it will start installing currency exchange machines in its stores in Japan from February in a bid to cater to foreign tourists. The convenience store chain will place the automated machines in four stores in Tokyo on Feb. 1 and have them operational at 1,000 outlets ...
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Giappone
Japan Post Bank unfazed by global stocks turmoil
The worst-ever start to a year for stock markets and oil’s historic slump have not deterred Japan’s postal savings bank, which is preparing to shift more of its $1.8 trillion portfolio into equities and alternative assets. Japan Post Bank Co. will start investing in shares directly within a year, Katsunori ...
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Giappone
JTB to highlight Tohoku in its first ever foreign tourism campaign
Travel agency JTB Corp. is to push Tohoku as a destination for foreign tourists five years after the world grieved at the region’s losses in the 2011 quake and tsunami. It will be its first ever campaign targeting non-Japanese visitors. The “Tohoku Kizuna Campaign” from March 11 to Sept. 31 ...
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Angola
Alimentos mais caros
O custo dos principais produtos alimentares na província do Cunene duplicaram, pela valorização da moeda namibiana e pelas taxas aduaneiras cobradas, soube o Jornal de Angola juntos dos principais centros comerciais da região e no mercado informal
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Angola
BNA esclarece o uso de cartões de crédito
O Banco Nacional de Angola (BNA) está a desenvolver mecanismos financeiros que visam garantir, a curto prazo, a utilização regular e segura dos cartões de crédito, de modo a salvaguardar a credibilidade destes meios de pagamento, apesar do actual cenário da economia no domínio da execução ...
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Italia
Padoan sull'Italia: "economia in salute, ora serve pi? resistenza agli choc"
(Teleborsa) - La crisi crisi internazionale non sembra preoccupare molto il Ministro dell'Economia Pier Carlo Padoan, che mette l'accento sulla capacit? di resistere agli choc esterni. In una...
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Italia
Campari corre a Milano. I numeri di Remy Cointreau fanno ben sperare
(Teleborsa) - Analisi intraday Pioggia di acquisti su?Campari, che passa di mano con un aumento del 3,51%. Di buon auspicio i numeri sulle vendite annunciati dalla rivale Remy...