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Cina Giappone
On heels of Trump affront, GM, Ford shares slide as China warns it may fine monopolistic U.S. carmaker
Shares of U.S. automakers General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co skidded on Wednesday after a Chinese official warned the government could slap a penalty on an unnamed U.S. automaker for monopolistic behavior. The warning from a senior Chinese state planning official, conveyed through the official China Daily newspaper on ...
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Giappone
Newly found hack of Yahoo dates back to 2013, affected more than 1 billion users
Yahoo said Wednesday more than a billion users may have had data stolen in a hack dating back to 2013 — separate from its previously disclosed breach affecting 500 million. “Yahoo believes an unauthorized third party, in August 2013, stole data associated with more than one billion user accounts,” a ...
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Giappone
Odakyu’s luxury Romancecar train gets upgrade after 20 years
Odakyu Electric Railway Co. revealed the upgraded edition of its signature luxury Romancecar EXE express train on Thursday. Dubbed the EXE Alpha, the new trains are scheduled to go online from March next year, connecting Tokyo with the Hakone hot-spring resort area, Katase Enoshima Station in Kanagawa Prefecture, and Gotemba ...
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Giappone
Dollar tops ¥117.50 in Tokyo on Fed’s hawkish rate outlook
The dollar soared above ¥117.50 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, powered by a surge in U.S. long-term interest rates after the U.S. Federal Reserve projected a steeper path for rate increases next year. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥117.62-63, up sharply from ¥114.98-99 at the same time Wednesday. ...
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Giappone
Nikkei rises for eighth session on Fed’s upgraded rate outlook
The benchmark Nikkei average extended its winning streak to an eighth session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, backed by the yen’s drop after the U.S. Federal Reserve signaled a faster pace of interest rate increases next year. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 20.18 points, or 0.10 percent, to close ...
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USA
These Scientists Are Hacking The Immune System To Fight Hackers
Hackers have been in the news lately, with their targets ranging from Minecraft players to an aide to a United States presidential contender. But few attacks could have larger and longer-lasting implications than an attack on electricity — the lifeblood of the modern economy — and the infrastructure that distributes ...
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Nigeria
Brexit trade deal ‘could take 10 years’
A post-Brexit United Kingdom-European Union trade deal might take 10 years to finalise and still fail, Britain’s ambassador to the EU has privately told the government. The BBC reports that Sir Ivan Rogers warned ministers that the European consensus was that a deal might not be done until the early ...
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Canada
L’Opep redoute un effet pervers
L’anticipation de prix de pétrole plus élevés en 2017, dans le sillage du récent accord de réduction de production conclu par l’Organisation des pays exportateurs de pétrole (Opep), devrait pousser les pays non Opep, n’ayant pas paraphé l’accord en question, à augmenter leur production dans les prochains mois. La récente ...
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USA
Tender call for 4000 MW solar energy project soon
HOUSTON (United States)- Minister of Energy Nourredine Bouterfa said Wednesday in Houston, United States, a national and international invitation to tender will be launched shortly for a photovoltaic solar energy plant project with a capacity of 4,000 megawatt. The tender call is being finalised, Bouterfa said in an opening ...
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USA
Bouterfa calls, in Houston, all American companies to invest in Algeria
HOUSTON (U.S.A)- Minister of Energy Nourredine Bouterfa called Wednesday, in Houston (U.S.A), all American companies to invest in Algeria and to conclude fruitful and sustainable energy partnerships, adding that energy partnership between Algeria and the United States is “dense and old-standing.” “We are working to increase the effort of exploration…