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Cina USA
SET sell-off on US-China trade concerns
Thailand's bourse was among several regional stock markets experiencing a sell-off Thursday on concerns over the US-China trade dispute and the US Federal Reserve's signal that it would raise interest rates further.
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Giappone
JBIC pledges airport link loans
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) pledges to extend soft loans to finance Thailand's 224.54-billion-baht high-speed railway linking three major airports and other infrastructure projects in the government's highly touted Eastern Economic Corridor.
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Cina
U.S.-China trade talks center on rivalry over tech dominance
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sounded a positive note Friday about talks between U.S. and Chinese officials ahead of a second day of meetings aimed ...
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India Pakistan
Mobile financial services are cornering the market
KAUSAR PARVEEN, of Chakwal district in the north of Pakistan’s Punjab province, is a star beneficiary of the work of Karandaaz, a Pakistani financial-inclusion charity. The owner of just one buffalo, she borrowed 75,000 rupees (about $650) to buy another one and started selling milk. The business has done so ...
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Cina Kenya
How mobile money is spreading
IT IS A measure of how fast and unpredictably technology and finance have developed that the two most influential new payment systems of the 21st century so far both came about more or less by accident. M-PESA, Kenya’s mobile-payment system, evolved out of a pilot scheme in 2005 by Safaricom, ...
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Israele
Business in Brief: Dollar at year’s highest versus the shekel
TowerJazz unveils chip with market of $9.4b ■ Ben-Moshe edges closer to control of Gindi ■ Tel Aviv shares slip into minus in final stretch
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USA
Parla Katainen: «Sui dazi non accettiamo minacce dagli Usa»
Il vice presidente della Commissione Europea Katainen: «L'Unione Europea non può trattare sotto la minaccia degli Stati Uniti o di chiunque altro. Siamo sempre pronti a discutere con Washington, ma alla pari. La minaccia non può essere un motivo per arrendersi...
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Cina USA
China braced for surprises in US trade talks
Vice-premier Liu He to face off against seven US representatives during negotiations
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Belgio
Le Temps Universel Coordonné est officiellement la référence horaire en Belgique
Le Temps universel coordonné (TUC) est devenu officiellement la référence permettant de fixer l'heure légale en Belgique. La Chambre a approuvé jeudi à l'unanimité une proposition de loi qui supprime la référence au méridien de Greenwich établie en 1892.
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Brasile
Brazil Criticizes U.S. Steel Import Tariffs and Quotas
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Brazilian government responded on Wednesday to the U.S.’s decision to halt negotiations and apply the import restrictions on Brazilian steel and aluminum, which had been temporarily suspended. Brazilian steelmakers say the new measures could decrease exports of some ...