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Giappone
Nikkei plunges below 17,000 on BOJ inaction
The Nikkei average plunged below 17,000 on Thursday amid disappointment over the Bank of Japan’s decision not to ease monetary policy further. The Nikkei dived 624.44 points, or 3.61 percent, to end at 16,666.05, extending its losing streak to a fourth day. On Wednesday, it lost 62.79 points. The Topix ...
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Giappone
SpaceX breaks Boeing-Lockheed monopoly on military space launches
The U.S. Air Force on Wednesday awarded billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX an $83 million contract to launch a GPS satellite, breaking the monopoly Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. have held on military space launches for more than a decade. The Global Positioning System satellite will be launched in May ...
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Giappone
BOJ holds off on more stimulus to gauge impact of negative rate
The Bank of Japan held off on expanding monetary stimulus, as Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda and his colleagues opted to take more time to assess the impact of negative interest rates. The move comes as a surprise to the slight majority of economists surveyed by Bloomberg who had projected some action ...
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Giappone
Toyota assembly lines to be back up to speed on May 6 after quake hiatus
Toyota Motor Corp. has said its Japanese plants will restore full vehicle production on May 6 after disruptions caused by the recent earthquakes in Kyushu. Toyota suspended operations at as many as 15 domestic assembly plants on April 18 amid a shortage of door and engine parts. The quakes damaged ...
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Nintendo disappoints without mobile Mario game and no new console
Nintendo Co. is easing into its newfound role as a mobile game publisher, but not fast enough for investors expecting a Mario-scale hit. The video-gaming company revealed plans to introduce two new smartphone titles in the coming year, even as it forecast net income and revenue short of analysts’ estimates ...
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Three JR train operators report record profits on shinkansen demand
Three listed Japan Railways Group firms have posted record consolidated sales and operating profits for fiscal 2015, thanks to brisk demand for shinkansen services. In the reporting period, sales at East Japan Railway Co. grew 4 percent from the year before to ¥2.8 trillion, with operating profit of ¥487 billion, ...
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Panama, U.S. ink bank account info-sharing pact in bid to fight tax evasion
Panama and the United States on Wednesday signed an agreement on sharing of back account information in a step Panama’s finance minister hailed as proof of his country’s cooperation in fighting tax evasion. The bilateral agreement comes weeks after the release of the Panama Papers, a series of reports around ...
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Giappone
FBI won’t reveal how it hacked killer’s locked iPhone, leaving Apple in dark on security vulnerabilities
The FBI said Wednesday that it will not publicly disclose the method that allowed it to break into a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers, noting the agency lacks enough “technical information” about the software vulnerability that was exploited. The decision resolves one of the thorniest ...
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Uber admite distribuir serviços a taxistas em Portugal
O diretor geral da Uber em Portugal, Rui Bento, admite que a empresa pode começar a distribuir serviços para táxis em Lisboa e no Porto, à semelhança do que já acontece noutras cidades estrangeiras.
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Portogallo
Esperados quatro mil táxis em protesto contra a Uber
Os taxistas cumprem na sexta-feira uma marcha lenta de protesto contra a Uber em Portugal, na qual esperam a participação de quatro mil carros em Lisboa, dois mil no Porto e 500 em Faro.