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Giappone
Nikkei falls back below 19,000 on yen’s rise
Stocks tumbled on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday due to a wave of selling sparked by the yen’s strengthening, with the benchmark Nikkei average ending below 19,000 for the first time in seven sessions. The 225-issue Nikkei lost 233.50 points, or 1.22 percent, to close at 18,914.58. On Wednesday, the ...
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USA Giappone
Lawyers say U.S. tax plan would break WTO rules
A proposed U.S. corporate tax reform would almost certainly contravene international trade rules if implemented, lawyers have said, risking the biggest dispute in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO). With signs growing that the United States may become more protectionist under President Donald Trump, European business groups said ...
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Giappone
Lead by Tesla, battery storage facilities look to boot fossil fuels from the grid
Tesla Motors Inc. is making a huge bet that millions of small batteries can be strung together to help kick fossil fuels off the grid. The idea is a powerful one — and has been used to help justify the company’s $5 billion factory near Reno, Nev. — but batteries ...
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Giappone
Artificial intelligence beats humans for the first time in poker
Artificial intelligence has made history by beating humans in poker for the first time, the last remaining game in which humans had managed to maintain the upper hand. Libratus, an AI built by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), racked up over $1.7 million worth of chips against four of the top ...
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Giappone
Small Shizuoka builder taps the ranks of college-educated carpenters
Heisei Corp., a small construction company in Shizuoka Prefecture, has a pool of 220 carpenters comprising many who finished graduate programs at the country’s top schools, including the University of Tokyo. Carpentry is by no means a magnet for new graduates on the job front in Japan due to low ...
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Giappone
Ishikawa firm’s styrofoam domes find favor with farmers seeking disaster-proof growing environment
For years, Katsuyuki Kitagawa dreamed of living in a comfortable home in the shape of a domed manju (dumpling), minus the bean paste. For over a decade his firm, Japan Dome House Co., based in Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, has come about as close to that realization as possible with the ...
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Kenya
Trump’s protectionist policies pose biggest risk to Kenya
Kenya will struggle to cover the export hole should the Trump administration roll back Agoa.
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USA
Hyundai and Kia Face Mixed Results in U.S. Market
Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors reported mixed results in the U.S. car market in January 2017. According to industry sources on February 1, Hyundai Motor sold 46,507 units in the United States in January 2017, up 3.3 percent from 45,011 units a year ago. The strong sales growth of Hyundai ...
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Portogallo
Madeira usa “fat tax” para reforçar verbas para a promoção da saúde
O secretário regional madeirense da Saúde e a Ordem dos Nutricionistas concordaram hoje no Funchal com a decisão de consignar ao setor da saúde as receitas resultantes da aplicação da taxa sobre os refrigerantes.
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Brasile
Petrobras deve enfrentar nova ação nos EUA
O juiz Amit Mehta, da Corte Distrital de Colúmbia, em Washington, deu indicações de que deverá aceitar a tramitação de uma ação proposta há um ano pelo fundo de investimento EIG Partners por prejuízos com a Sete Brasil, na qual são requeridos aproximadamente US$ 300 milhões de indenização