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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The benchmark Nikkei average staged a sharp rally to close above 17,000 on Thursday, as worries receded about global financial market turmoil following Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the U.S. presidential election. The 225-issue Nikkei average surged 1,092.88 points, or 6.72 percent, to end at 17,344.42 on the Tokyo Stock ...
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday dashed any remaining hopes that President Barack Obama’s signature Pacific-Rim trade deal would come up for a vote before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January. “It’s certainly not going to be brought up this year,” McConnell said of the 12-country Trans-Pacific ...
Mexico’s central bank chief warned back in September that a Donald Trump victory in the U.S. election would hit his country like a powerful storm. After Hurricane Trump made landfall, the peso fell to an all-time low Wednesday and the Mexican stock market plunged on fears Trump would make good ...
The American news media, kicked around by Donald Trump for months, is now kicking itself over how it handled the 2016 presidential election. How did journalists fail to see the Republican surging to victory? Did the “free publicity” a fascinated media gave Trump early on help him gain momentum? And ...
Japanese business leaders on Wednesday sought to assess the economic impact of the victory of Republican Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election. Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of Keidanren, said Trump’s victory came amid hopes of change among the people of the United States. Sakakibara expressed hope that Trump, an experienced ...
Japan Display Inc. said Wednesday it will cut more than 4,700 jobs, or 30 percent of its total workforce, as it logged a bigger group net loss in the first half through September. The maker of liquid crystal display panels for smartphones and tablet computers posted a group net loss ...
Shifting demand from cars to trucks and SUVS is forcing General Motors to lay off more than 2,000 workers indefinitely at two assembly plants, in Ohio and Michigan, starting in January. The company said Wednesday it will suspend the third shifts at factories in Lordstown, Ohio, and in Lansing, Michigan, ...
The rising prospect of a Trump presidency jolted markets around the world Wednesday, sending Dow futures and Asian stock prices sharply lower as investors panicked over uncertainties on trade, immigration and geopolitical tensions.At one point, Dow futures plunged more than 4 percent and Japan's major index nosedived more than 6.1 percent, its ...
The prospect of a Donald Trump presidency unnerves businesspeople and economists who see him as a reckless novice who might disrupt trade and imperil the struggling global economy.Financial markets tumbled Wednesday as Trump claimed victory after a campaign marked by fiery anti-foreign rhetoric and promises to tear up trade deals, ...
Le borse mondiali reagiscono negativamente all’esito delle elezioni statunitensi. Le contrattazioni in Australia e sulle piazze asiatiche hanno raggiunto il minimo degli ultimi quattro mesi. L’indice Nikkei della borsa di Tokyo ha perso più del 5 per cento. I prezzi del petrolio e le valutazioni del dollaro statunitense sono calati. ...
Financial markets were thrown into disarray in Tokyo on Wednesday as Republican candidate Donald Trump secured victory in the U.S. presidential race, with the Nikkei stock index nose-diving by 5.36 percent and yen briefly surging against the dollar to the 101 range. Panicked investors rushed to unwind bets they had ...
The dollar tumbled against the yen in Tokyo trading Wednesday, briefly hitting a five-week low below ¥102, as market players faced the stunning prospect of Republican candidate Donald Trump being elected U.S. president. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥103.32-33, compared with ¥104.41-42 at the same time Tuesday. The ...
The benchmark Nikkei average plummeted to a three-month closing low on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, as investors grappled with the possibility of Republican candidate Donald Trump winning the U.S. presidency. The 225-issue Nikkei average dived 919.84 points, or 5.36 percent, to end at 16,251.54, its lowest closing since Aug. ...
It staged one of the year’s biggest IPOs but messaging app Line, while a huge draw among teens in Asia, says it has no big ambitions to take on Western giants such as Facebook on their home turf. The Japan-based company known for its popular cartoon “stickers” — a virtual ...
The nation’s current account surplus in the April-September period surged 20.5 percent from a year before to ¥10.3 trillion, hitting the highest level on a fiscal half-year basis since the second half of fiscal 2007, government data showed Wednesday. The current account balance was in the black for the fifth ...
Recent cyberattacks harnessing everyday devices such as cameras, video recorders, printers, routers and speakers are a wake-up call to the hidden dangers of the “internet of things (IoT).” The problem for the device makers, though, is that few are well equipped to tackle the unfamiliar task of foiling hackers. For ...
The Nissan-Renault alliance aims to offer Chinese drivers a new electric car costing just $8,000 within two years, chief executive Carlos Ghosn said Tuesday as he touted an “explosion” in demand amid efforts to offset climate change. The electric auto market as a whole is stepping up a gear thanks ...
Japanese lawmakers are revisiting a plan to build a $6.7 billion natural gas pipeline from Russia ahead of a visit by President Vladimir Putin to Japan next month. A group of about 80 lawmakers from the ruling parties will ask the government by the end of this month to carry ...
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co. will extend automobile insurance coverage to accidents involving automated driving cars for all policyholders without costs from April 2017. The core unit of Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. will be the first to give such insurance coverage in Japan, officials said Tuesday. Tokio Marine ...
Suntory Beer Ltd. partially resumed beer production at its factory in Kumamoto Prefecture on Tuesday, after nearly seven months of suspension due to strong earthquakes in the prefecture from mid-April. The plant in the town of Kashima, for beer products and soft drinks, was the last to see production restart ...
All of Japan’s seven major automakers logged drops in group sales in April-September, reflecting the yen’s appreciation, their latest earnings data have shown. Toyota Motor Corp., Mazda Motor Corp. and Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd., which rely on exports more heavily than others, posted operating profit declines of more than 20 ...