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Giappone
Dollar jumps above ¥105.50 in Tokyo on Trump policy hopes
The dollar hovered firmly around ¥105.60 in Tokyo trading late Thursday after jumping to levels just below ¥106, thanks to a powerful rally in Tokyo stocks on hopes for business-friendly economic policies from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥105.62-63, compared with ¥103.32-33 at the ...
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Giappone
Government cuts assessment after September core machinery orders fall 3.3 percent
Japan’s core private-sector machinery orders fell a seasonally adjusted 3.3 percent in September from the previous month for the second consecutive month of decline, prompting the government to lower its assessment for the first time in four months, it said Thursday. The orders, widely viewed as a leading indicator of ...
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Giappone
Abenomics hits new hurdle as Trump win roils outlook
Donald Trump’s stunning election victory may complicate Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to revive Japan’s economy, underscoring the vulnerability of Abenomics to fluctuations in the yen and export profits. Trump’s win all but doomed the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which could have boosted Japanese manufacturers. Abe was counting on the ...
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Giappone
Nikkei climbs above 17,000 in powerful rally
The benchmark Nikkei average staged a sharp rally to close above 17,000 on Thursday, as worries receded about global financial market turmoil following Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election. The 225-issue Nikkei average surged 1,092.88 points, or 6.72 percent, to end at 17,344.42 on the Tokyo Stock ...
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Giappone
McConnell rules out TPP vote before Trump takes office
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday dashed any remaining hopes that President Barack Obama’s signature Pacific-Rim trade deal would come up for a vote before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. “It’s certainly not going to be brought up this year,” McConnell said of the 12-country Trans-Pacific ...
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Giappone
Mexico braces for ‘Hurricane Trump’ landfall, snubs call to build wall as peso falls
Mexico’s central bank chief warned back in September that a Donald Trump victory in the U.S. election would hit his country like a powerful storm. After Hurricane Trump made landfall, the peso fell to an all-time low Wednesday and the Mexican stock market plunged on fears Trump would make good ...
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Giappone
Media soul-search ‘epic fall’ after hitting Trump, giving him free air time, getting ‘tweetstorms’ back
The American news media, kicked around by Donald Trump for months, is now kicking itself over how it handled the 2016 presidential election. How did journalists fail to see the Republican surging to victory? Did the “free publicity” a fascinated media gave Trump early on help him gain momentum? And ...
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Marché de l’électroménager : Brandt Algérie lance ses nouveaux lave-linge
Brandt Algérie continue à creuser son sillon agressif en matière d’offres commerciales en lançant cette fois ses tout nouveaux lave-linge Top. Ces lave-linge (conformité européenne) répondent aux exigences fondamentales des règlements et directives européennes en termes de sécurité et de protection des consommateurs. Ces machines à laver fabriquées en Algérie ...
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Indonesia
My visit to Algeria "successful in all regards," says Hasan
ALGIERS-Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly of Indonesia (Parliament) Zulkifli Hasan stressed Wednesday in Algiers that his visit to Algeria "was successful in all regards," expressing both countries' willingness to strengthen bilateral multifaceted cooperation. In a press statement following his meeting with Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs ...
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Etiopia
IOC Awards Trophy to EOC President
[Ethiopian Herald] The International Olympic Committee awarded IOC trophy to Ethiopian Olympic Committee (EOC) President Birhane Kidanemariam for his contribution towards the promotion of the ideals of Olympics movement in Ethiopia.