• Italia

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    Operazione della finanza tra Roma e Perugia, sequestri per 15 milioni

  • Italia

    Burden-sharing

    BANKS in Italy fared better during the financial crisis than many of their peers, sparing Italian taxpayers the bail-outs their counterparts in other countries had to shoulder. But although they stuck to their cautious business models and avoided fuelling a big housing boom and bust, Italy’s protracted recession has enfeebled ...

  • Brasile

    Deep impact

    Trying times for Esteves AS THE founder and boss of BTG Pactual, a Brazilian investment bank, André Esteves has been a shrewd and hyperactive dealmaker. But on November 25th some of those deals appeared to sour, when he was arrested in Rio de Janeiro as part of a vast bribery investigation ...

  • Cina Giappone

    Pricing risk

    CHINA’S domestic bond market has never been riskier. It was only last year that it suffered its first default. This year at least six companies have defaulted. The miscreants are a diverse lot, including a beverage bottler, a solar-panel maker and a cement company. As economic growth grinds lower, defaults ...

  • Giappone

    Loosening their ties

    MEETINGS to last no more than 30 minutes; junior staff allowed to speak freely with superiors; a cut in bonuses for bosses whose teams do not take enough holidays. Since 2012 “Pride”, a handbook, has set a new tone for the internal culture of Hyundai Capital. Departments whose staff work ...

  • Cina Giappone

    Chicago hope

    That’s a dummy, not a customer WHEN a globally successful fashion-store chain opens up for the first time in a big city’s most prominent shopping district, it might reasonably expect a rush of excited consumers. But when Uniqlo of Japan opened its first midwestern outlet last month, on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, ...

  • Cina

    Standing up to Superman

    Thwarted, for now HONG KONG likes to think of itself as a bastion of global capitalism. Unlike politicised and parochial financial centres on the Chinese mainland, locals claim, their transparent markets protect the rights of minority investors. As evidence, they point to the fact that Hong Kong refused to let Alibaba ...

  • Portogallo

    Juros da dívida fecham abaixo de nível pré-eleitoral

    Os juros das Obrigações do Tesouro a 10 anos encerraram quinta-feira em 2,33% no mercado secundário da dívida, em dia de tomada de posse do novo governo em Portugal

  • Cuba Ecuador El Salvador Costa Rica

    Ecuador exigirá visa a cubanos a partir de diciembre - El Nuevo Diario

    Ecuador, que en 2008 eliminó su visa de turista, anunció el jueves que exigirá ese requisito a los cubanos desde el próximo martes, con miras a "desestimular" la migración de esos extranjeros desde territorio ecuatoriano hacia Estados Unidos. El gobierno ecuatoriano "pedirá visa a los ciudadanos cubanos no porque tenemos algo ...

  • Guatemala

    Disminuye en 8% prevalencia de desnutrición crónica en Guatemala - El Nuevo Diario

    La prevalencia de la desnutrición crónica se redujo en un 8 por ciento en Guatemala entre 2008 y 2015, según el IV Censo Nacional de Talla realizado en escolares de primer grado de educación primaria del sector público divulgado hoy por las autoridades. Según el titular de la Secretaría de Seguridad ...