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Giappone
Honda to raise retirement age to 65 in recognition of demographic shift
Honda Motor Co. plans to shake up job terms next fiscal year and lift its retirement age by five years to 65, making the carmaker one of Japan Inc.’s biggest companies to take action in coping with the nation’s aging demographics. Other proposed changes applying to about 40,000 employees at ...
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Cina Giappone
Four ways China flexed economic power before IMF club added the yuan
Long before the yuan was inducted into the International Monetary Fund’s hall of currency fame, China had upped its game as an economic powerhouse in a variety of arenas. Here are four ways the Middle Kingdom has etched out its influence in the global economy: Foreign Reserves China has the ...
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Giappone
Keikyu to offer new discount on trains for groups of foreign tourists
Railway operator Keikyu Corp. said Monday it will launch a new discount service for foreign tourists traveling in groups. Parties of between nine and 50 individuals, including a tour guide, will receive one free fare. In groups up to 100 in size there will be two free tickets, and three ...
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Cina Giappone
Yuan’s SDR status seen helping it to become as recognizable as the dollar
The addition of China’s yuan to the select basket of currencies used as a yardstick by the International Monetary Fund is a sign, experts say, that the yuan may one day become as recognizable as the dollar or euro. Adding the yuan alongside the dollar, euro, pound and yen is ...
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Cina Giappone
IMF gives Chinese yuan Special Drawing Rights status
The International Monetary Fund on Monday admitted China’s yuan into its benchmark currency basket, as expected, in a victory for Beijing’s campaign for recognition as a global economic power. The decision to add the yuan, also known as the renminbi, to the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) basket alongside the dollar, ...
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Giappone
Nikkei group completes £844 million purchase of Financial Times
Japanese news organization Nikkei Inc. announced Monday that it has completed the acquisition of major British newspaper The Financial Times from the U.K. media giant Pearson PLC. Per the agreement, first announced by Nikkei and Pearson in July, the Japanese company paid £844 million (about $1.3 billion) for all the ...
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Cina
China Caixin manufacturing gauge improves
Private manufacturing PMI rises to 48.6 in November; activity continues to contract.
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Argentina
Adelmo Gabbi, en El Cronista TV: "Estamos pasando de la ideología y el despilfarro a la gestión"
El presidente de la Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires aseguró que el gabinete de Mauricio Macri le parecen “óptimas” y que le parece que el dólar, luego de subir su cotización, va a volver a bajar debido al shock de confianza.
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Cina
EEUU y China prometen reducir las emisiones pero sin acuerdos vinculantes
Obama y Xi, líderes de los dos países más emisores deCO2, se comprometen a reducir la contaminación pero no quieren que los compromisos de la cumbre sean "vinculantes". Leer
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Portogallo
Sousa Tavares. A carga fiscal da classe média “vai inevitavelmente subir”
No habitual espaço de comentário na SIC, Miguel Sousa Tavares defendeu que “para um país pequeno como Portugal”, a conjuntura internacional “é determinante”. E acrescentou que é necessário perceber porque é que a economia portuguesa não é competitiva internacionalmente