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Giappone
BOJ chief Kuroda has ruined his chances for second term: Abe aide Nakahara
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has ruined his chances of getting a second full term, according to Nobuyuki Nakahara, who has advised the prime minister on the economy and was an intellectual father of the BOJ’s first run at quantitative easing in 2001. The central bank’s switch to yield-curve ...
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India Giappone
India ratifies Paris climate accord, vows to be solar, wind leader but will need financial aid
India, which accounts for about 4.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, ratified the Paris climate change agreement Sunday at the United Nations, officials said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Cabinet had given its approval Wednesday to ratify the Paris agreement on Oct. 2, coinciding with the birth anniversary of India’s ...
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Giappone
Germany Inc. execs stand with embattled Deutsche Bank
Germany’s top executives voiced confidence in Deutsche Bank on Sunday, after fears over the lender’s financial health saw shares plummet to a record low. Speaking to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, the heads of some of Germany’s biggest companies, including Siemens, Daimler and Munich Re, said the drama of the past ...
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USA Giappone
BOJ seen trying in vain U.S. WWII rate-pegging ploy to spark inflation
In deciding to target bond yields, Japan is deploying a monetary strategy to combat deflation used by its former enemy in World War II. The trouble is that America’s experience back then suggests the tactics probably won’t work on their own. Economists who have studied that period say it was ...
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USA Giappone
San Francisco locals want to charge Lombard Street toll as tourists swarm
Lombard Street, the scenic San Francisco thoroughfare known as the “Crookedest Street in the World,” has become so thronged with gawkers that residents say it feels more like an overcrowded amusement park than a residential road. Cars waiting to drive down the 600-foot-long street often stretch back for three blocks. ...
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USA Giappone
CITES calls on nations to end legal ivory trade in bid to end poaching
The United Nations on Sunday called for the shutdown of all legal domestic ivory markets as it looks to combat poaching and put pressure on countries that continue to trade in elephant tusks. Member states of the U.N.’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, known as CITES, agreed on ...
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Nuova Zelanda
3 Chinese cities slap restrictions on foreign buyers
While New Zealand debates the impact of foreign buyers on the ever surging property market, three Chinese cities have announced new restrictions on property purchases.
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Kenya Yemen Pakistan
Raila's new war fronts on Uhuru
ODM leader Raila Odinga and a new team of strategists have crafted a multi-pronged tactic to discredit President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first four years in power. The strategy, rolled out by a newly formed strategic group and a strike force––both in his inner circle––aims at massively stepping up pressure to unseat ...
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India Costa Rica Kenya
Top politicians with 'questionable' academic papers
Top political leaders and high State officers are caught up in an academic certificate forgery fiasco that threatens their professional and political careers only 10 months to the 2017 polls. The latest to be mired in the potentially damaging farce is Jubilee rebel MP Oscar Sudi (Kapseret), who joins a ...
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Kenya
Business: Youth earn Sh5m from Huduma Kenya projects
The youth are making up to Sh5 million monthly through the Huduma Kenya Programme, Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki has said.