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— Haruki Murakami
That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
— Haruki Murakami
The dollar shed some of its early gains on position-adjustment selling late Friday and was trading around ¥105.80 in Tokyo after topping ¥106 for the first time in three weeks. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥105.86-86, up from ¥105.44-44 the same time Thursday. The euro was at $1.1132-1132, ...
In just over a week, the smartphone game “Pokemon Go” has become a giant hit, turning millions of people around the world into monster hunters. Given the game’s promising start, investors are taking another look at Nintendo Co., whose value has shot up by about ¥1.5 trillion since “Pokemon Go” ...
Stocks advanced for the fifth consecutive session on Friday, jacked up by a continued bull run on Wall Street and the yen’s renewed weakness. The 225-issue Nikkei average rose 111.96 points, or 0.68 percent, to close at 16,497.85 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. On Thursday, the key market gauge gained ...
Japan’s major lenders wouldn’t want the central bank to pay them to borrow even if policymakers seeking to kill off deflation made such an offer, according to people familiar with the matter. The idea of setting negative interest rates on loans to lenders surfaced earlier this year after the Bank ...
Bread makers, TV broadcasters, toy companies and regional banks are some of Tokyo traders’ favorite stocks this week, all thanks to Pokemon. The craze surrounding the mobile game “Pokemon Go” has spread far beyond its maker Nintendo Co., whose shares have surged more than 70 percent since the app’s launch ...
As throngs of “Pokemon Go” players traipse around to real-world landmarks in pursuit of digital monsters, some ticked-off property owners are asking to have their locations in the fictional Poke-verse removed. For Valerie Janovic, a 19-year-old psychology major at Brandeis University, the game went too far when the image of ...
Oil giant BP PLC has put a final price tag on what its catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill cost the company: $61.6 billion. The company issued the estimate Thursday, the first time it has put a total cost on the catastrophe. BP said it expects to spend a total ...
Microsoft on Thursday scored a big victory on a keenly watched privacy battlefront, with a U.S. appeals court saying prosecutors cannot force U.S. companies to turn over customer emails and other data stored on servers overseas. The government suggested that the ruling could hamper national security investigations. The three-judge panel ...
The top leaders of Japan and Mongolia agreed Thursday to boost economic ties by taking full advantage of a new bilateral trade deal. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Mongolian President Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj held talks on the eve of a biennial summit of Asian and European leaders. “As we are precious ...
Shares in the Asian hit messaging app Line surged 40 percent in opening trade in New York Thursday in a market hungry for the newest technology IPO. The largest new tech stock on the market so far this year drew strong support as Wall Street overall pushed to new record ...
Central bankers globally need to realize the risks that extreme monetary policies could backfire, according to Voya Financial Inc.’s Karyn Cavanaugh. “Negative rates are turning out to be a dirt sandwich, especially for Japan,” Cavanaugh, who works as senior market strategist at the insurer’s asset manager, said Wednesday in an ...
The dollar rose above ¥105 for the first time in about three weeks in Tokyo on Thursday, pushed up by traders in Europe. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥105.44-44, up from ¥104.22-22 at the same time Wednesday. The euro was at $1.1099-1099, up from $1.1046-1047, and at ¥117.03-04, ...
Stocks extended their winning streak to a fourth session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Thursday, backed by higher U.S. equities and a softening yen. The Nikkei average gained 154.46 points, or 0.95 percent, to finish at 16,385.89. On Wednesday, it rose 135.78 points. The Topix index closed up 10.90 ...
The Fair Trade Commission is investigating whether clauses in contracts for liquefied natural gas that restrict buyers from reselling the fuel violate the competition laws of the world’s largest user of the super-chilled gas, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The investigation is in an early stage and ...
The Buddhist approach to doing business is yielding results in Japan again. Tomoaki Horiguchi runs a small real estate company in Tokyo whose stock has jumped more than 11-fold in the past five years, extending gains in 2016 even as the broader market tumbles. He studies at the management school ...
The aircraft sector hit turbulence Wednesday as European giant Airbus slashed output of its A380 superjumbo because of weak demand, putting the brakes on plane orders generally at Farnborough. The Franco-German plane maker revealed at Farnborough — one of the world’s largest civilian and defense airshows — that it would ...
French President Francois Hollande congratulated Britain’s new Prime Minister Theresa May on her appointment Wednesday and urged her to quickly begin talks on the country’s divorce from the EU, the Elysee Palace said. Hollande “reiterated his wish for the negotiations on Britain’s departure from the European Union to be undertaken ...
The status of London as the world’s leading financial hub will not change despite Britain’s decision to walk away from the European Union, Jeffrey Evans, Lord Mayor of the City of London, said Thursday in Tokyo. He was speaking amid concern that Britain’s exit will undermine the city’s global standing. ...
Day traders in Tokyo are famous for their love of technology companies, new listings and volatility. So many expect fireworks when messaging app Line Corp., the biggest tech initial public offering of the year, makes its Japan trading debut on Friday. Accounting for about a fifth of the nation’s daily ...
(Teleborsa) - Quarta seduta positiva della settimana per la piazza di Tokyo.Le nuove misure all'economia messe a punte dal governo Abe per sconfiggere la deflazione oggi...
The “Pokemon Go” mobile gaming craze reached European fans on Wednesday, with players in Germany the first to get their hands on the augmented reality sensation. The game has until now only been available in the United States, Australia and New Zealand — although some particularly avid Europeans fans downloaded ...