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Giappone
Kansai business leaders hail nuclear power plant restarts, urge TPP ratification
The annual meeting of Kansai area corporate leaders opened Thursday in Kyoto with declarations of support for a recently restarted nuclear power plant and calls for the swift ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The two-day Kansai Economic Seminar brought together over 500 participants including heads of companies. Tabled for discussion ...
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Giappone
Sales of imported foreign vehicles fell 0.8% in January
Sales of imported foreign-brand vehicles in Japan in January fell 0.8 percent from a year before to 17,045 units, down for the fifth straight month, the Japan Automobile Importers Association said Thursday. The overall momentum created by launching new models of mass-market vehicles has been fading, although they still sell ...
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Giappone
Mitsui slashes profit forecast 21% amid rout in commodities
Mitsui & Co., the nation’s second-biggest trading house, has lowered its full-year forecast 21 percent amid a collapse in commodity prices. The company expects a profit of ¥190 billion in the financial year to March, down from its previous forecast of ¥240 billion, according to a statement Thursday. It cited ...
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Giappone
Toshiba loss outlook grows amid accounting scandal fallout
Toshiba Corp. widened its full-year loss forecast as the industrial group cuts jobs and sells businesses to deal with fallout from an accounting scandal. The post Toshiba loss outlook grows amid accounting scandal fallout appeared first on The Japan Times.
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Giappone
Stocks fall further as yen climbs
Stocks lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, dragged down by the yen’s ascent against the dollar. The Nikkei average fell 146.26 points, or 0.85 percent, to close at 17,044.99. On Wednesday, it dived 559.43 points. The Topix ended down 17.46 points, or 1.24 percent, at 1,388.81, after ...
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Giappone
Bank of Japan probes leak after newspaper reported discussion of negative rates
The Bank of Japan is investigating how a leading newspaper got apparent word of its latest policy decision before the announcement was made. A report Friday on the website of the Nikkei business daily posted minutes before the decision’s announcement said the BOJ Policy Board was considering setting a negative ...
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Giappone
Meet the man who’s making virtual reality feel more real
As a student at the University of Bristol, Tom Carter became obsessed with a seemingly impossible notion: letting people feel and manipulate virtual objects. A professor turned him on to an esoteric concept — using ultrasound to simulate tactile sensations — that was floated and abandoned back in the 1970s. ...
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India Giappone
Carmakers say India’s sudden rule changes raise investment uncertainty
Behind the glitzy song-and-dance sequences at the biennial Delhi Auto Expo, executives from automakers including Maruti Suzuki India Ltd., Honda Motor Co., and Ford Motor Co. are expressing concern about sudden changes in regulation. In December, India’s top court banned the sale of diesel vehicles with 2-liter engines or larger ...
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Grecia
European Commission: “0.7% GDP rate recession in Greece for 2016”
The European Commission has estimated that Greece has shown resilience in face of the capital controls that were introduced...
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Colombia
Gobierno pide a Venezuela retomar diálogo por deuda
La última reunión entre las partes se celebró en Nueva York el pasado mes de septiembre. La deuda se calcula en mil millones de dólares.