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Argentina
Ana Botín confirma ante Macri el plan de inversiones de Banco Santander en Argentina
La presidenta de Banco Santander, Ana Botín, ha confirmado ante el presidente de Argentina, Mauricio Macri, un plan de inversiones de la filial argentina de más de 20.000 millones de pesos (unos 1.215 millones de euros al cambio actual) en "los próximos años" destinado a modernizar y abrir sucursales, mejorar ...
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Thailandia
SET opens up 5.25 to 1,495.36
Thai stocks opened up 0.35% at the start of trade this morning.
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Brasile
Defensor de direitos humanos preso em operação presta depoimento à polícia
O vice-presidente do Conselho Estadual de Defesa dos Direitos da Pessoa Humana (Condepe), Luiz Carlos dos Santos, preso na operação que investiga a relação de advogados e agentes públicos com o crime organizado, foi levado sob escolta para prestar depoimento, no fim da tarde desta quinta-feira (24/11). Santos deixou a ...
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Nuova Zelanda
How Wellington's duty nurses stepped up during the earthquake
It was two hours and 45 minutes after the quake when the baby arrived.
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Giappone
Japan suffers longest consumer price fall since 2011
Japan’s consumer prices fell in October, government data showed Friday, extending the longest string of declines in five years and underscoring its struggles to conquer deflation. The weak inflation data — core prices excluding fresh food fell 0.4 percent from a year ago — came several weeks after Japan’s central ...
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Giappone
Dollar briefly falls back below ¥113 in Tokyo
The dollar was moderately above ¥113 in Tokyo trading late Friday after temporarily slipping below the ¥113 mark earlier in the day. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥113.13-13, down from ¥113.31-32 at the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.0587-0587, up from $1.0536-0537, and at ¥119.77-77, up ...
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Giappone
Wages rise, hours fall for part-time workers
Over the last 10 years, Japan’s 14 million part-time workers cut their working hours by more than 6 percent. They now work about 4.5 hours a day. That’s a blow to a country that’s struggling with a declining population, and to a government seeking to increase people’s take-home pay and ...
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Giappone
Japan Display said close to securing ¥100 billion bailout
Japan Display Inc. may issue preferred shares to raise as much as ¥100 billion from a government-backed fund, people familiar with the matter said, a deal that amounts to a bailout of the struggling display maker. The Tokyo-based supplier of screens to Apple Inc. has explored ways to win a ...
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India Giappone
Electronics firm Elecom exits India after four years
Elecom Co., a Japanese manufacturer of peripheral products and accessories for personal computers and other digital equipment, has closed its Indian unit after less than four years in the country, with one executive saying it failed to gain traction in the price-sensitive market. “Elecom India Pvt. Ltd. has stopped all ...
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Giappone Indonesia
Companies bet on sea change to tidal power in Indonesia
A well-connected Indonesian marine renewable energy company and OpenHydro, a unit of French state-owned naval defense company DCNS, aim to be the first to plug into the vast untapped tidal energy potential of the world’s biggest archipelago. Renewables have so far played little part in Indonesia’s power sector, despite the ...