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USA Giappone
Timing right for $75 billion stock binge after Japan pension whales’ losses
There’s no time like the present for Japan’s pension whales to buy stocks and sell local bonds, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. “Bond prices are high, and stocks are cheap, so it’s a good opportunity to sell high and buy low,” said Shuichi Ohsaki, the chief rates strategist ...
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Giappone
Idemitsu son buys Showa Shell stake in bid to stop merger
The son of the founder of Idemitsu Kosan Co. has begun buying shares in rival refiner Showa Shell Sekiyu KK in a bid to block a proposed merger between the two companies. Shosuke Idemitsu purchased 400,000 Showa Shell shares and may buy more until his namesake company gives up on ...
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Cina Giappone
China’s robotics industry provides lesson in out-of-control debt
Down a side street bracketed by massage parlors and cheap hotels in this city on the banks of the Yangtze River, a humanoid food service robot trundles around the corner of a table in a cafe, red eyes flashing in tune with synthesized classical music. The Wuhu Hands On Cafe’s ...
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Giappone
Energy rout fells Japan’s venerated ‘Big Three’ trading giants
The energy price collapse is doing in Japan what the Great Depression and two world wars couldn’t: put an end to a century of dominance by its three most prestigious companies. The trading house descendants of Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Sumitomo, which have dominated the nation’s economy for more than 100 ...
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Russia Giappone
Putin struggles to kick-start Russia’s flagging economy
Vladimir Putin’s economy has been shrinking for 18 months but he still doesn’t have a plan to get it going again. After focusing almost exclusively on foreign policy since early 2014, the need to get the economy back into gear is forcing the Russian president to face a painful choice: ...
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Cina
Pontapé inicial
A Olimpíada do Rio começou ontem, de fato, com jogos de futebol feminino. A seleção brasileira venceu a da China por 3 a 0, jogando no Engenhão, no Rio. Levantamento feito pela EY mostra que o total investido pelos patrocinadores da Olimpíada em marketing, publicidade e eventos soma R$ 4,6 ...
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Senegal
Affaire Mbayang Diop : Le gouvernement fera le nécessaire (Porte-parole)
Dakar, 3 août (APS) – Le Sénégal fera le nécessaire dans l'affaire Mbayang Diop, une Sénégalaise détenue en Arabie Saoudite pour le meurtre de l'épouse de son employeur, selon le porte-parole du gouvernement, Seydou Guèye, qui promet que l'Etat ne dérogera pas à ses principes de défendre ses compatriotes en ...
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Thailandia
SET up 3.91 points at opening
Thai stocks opened up 0.26% at the start of trade this morning.
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Thailandia
Thai rice faces global price war
Thailand's rice market is expected to face a price war next year as a result of oversupply that will lower prices in both domestic and export markets, while the stronger baht could hurt the competitiveness of rice shipments, exporters warn.
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Cina Indonesia Singapore Vietnam Filippine
ASEAN expects China, Brexit to slow economic growth in 2016
53 percent of the U.S. companies thought ASEAN has become more important in terms of worldwide revenue in the past two yearsThe global economy is slow... but steadier than everAsian women still suffer pay gap, inequality at work: studyVietnam's stock market loses $1.12 bln as Brexit wreaks havoc worldwideSoutheast Asia ...