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Boj Shirakawa To Appear In Parliament On Wednesday - Reuters
tokyo, oct 15 (reuters) - bank of japan governor masaaki shirakawa will appear before a parliamentary committee on wednesday, a parliament official said. shirakawa is expected to answer questions from lawmakers at the upper house's budget committee ...
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Tokyo Gas, Hokkaido Electric Lead Japan Utilities' Gains On Oil
oct. 15 (bloomberg) -- tokyo gas co. and hokkaido electric power co. led gains by japanese utilities as declines in crude oil prices may cut fuel procurement costs through the end of this financial year.
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Japan World Trade Barometer Shrinks
tokyo, japan (ap) -- japan's current account surplus in august shrank 52.5 percent from a year earlier as the country's spending on oil imports soared, the finance ministry said wednesday.
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Hamilton Sets Early Pace In Japan - Hindustan Times
mclaren's lewis hamilton threw down the gauntlet to world championship rival felipe massa on friday in opening practice for the japanese grand prix, topping the timesheets. the briton's best lap of 1min 18.910secs came with 25 minutes of the 90 ...
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Morgan Stanley Shares Soar As Mufg Deal Closes - Reuters Canada
new york (reuters) - morgan stanley stock nearly doubled after japan's mitsubishi ufj financial group inc (mufg) completed its $9 billion investment in the bank on monday. u.s. government support helped morgan nail down a critical deal that many ...
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Bank Of Japan Drains Funds From Money Market, Market Drops
japan's central bank said it drained 1.0 trillion yen (9.8 billion dollars) of excess funds from the tokyo money markets wednesday as credit market tensions eased.
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Japan Current-account Surplus Narrowed In August On Import Bill
oct. 15 (bloomberg) -- japan's current-account surplus narrowed for a sixth month in august as record oil prices pushed up the nation's import bill. the surplus shrank 52.5 percent to 988.8 billion ($9.7 billion) from a year earlier, the ministry of finance said in tokyo today.
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Tokyo, Japan - Forbes
japan is a member of the asia pacific economic cooperation (apec) which includes southeast asian countries like china, thailand and malaysia as well as the u.s., new zealand and canada. for these countries, japan is slowly doing away with import ...
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Japan's Current Account Surplus Down 52.5 Percent - International Herald Tribune
tokyo : japan says its current account surplus in august dropped 52.5 percent from a year earlier. the finance ministry said wednesday that the surplus in the current account, the broadest measure of japan's trade with the rest of the world, came at ...
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Japan Govt Wants Hirano As Boj Deputy Chief-media
tokyo, oct 15 (reuters) - japan's government is likely to nominate former bank of japan executive director eiji hirano as a deputy governor of the central bank, the mainichi newspaper reported on wednesday.
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Japan Government May Tap As Eiji Hirano As Boj Deputy Gov - Report
tokyo -(dow jones)- the bank of japan may tap former bank of japan official eiji hirano to fill the one of the central bank's vacant deputy governor seats, the mainichi shimbun reported wednesday.
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Greenhill & Co. Expands To Japan; Firm Opens Tokyo Office - Forbes
- kensuke hotta and hiroto yamada, two leading bankers, are joining greenhill - new york and tokyo, oct. 14 /prnewswire-firstcall/ --greenhill & co., inc. (nyse: ghl), a leading independent investment bank, announced today plans to expand its ...
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Japanese Current Account Surplus Shrinks For 6th Month - International Herald Tribune
tokyo : japan's current-account surplus shrank for a sixth month in august as record oil prices pushed up the nation's import bill. the surplus shrank 52.5 percent to ¥988.8 billion, or $9.7 billion, from a year earlier, the ministry of finance said ...
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Japan To Review Tariffs On S.korea's Hynix
tokyo, oct 15 (reuters) - japan's trade ministry said on wednesday it will review special tariffs on memory chips made by hynix semiconductor inc , responding to the south korean firms demand for the complete lifting of the extra duties.
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Japan Nikkei Slips 0.6 Pct, Exporters Edge Down
tokyo (reuters) - japan's nikkei average slipped 0.6 percent on wednesday, a day after its biggest one-day gain in history, with toyota motor co and other exporters down after wall street fell on worries about the global economy.
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Bank Of Japan Pulls 1 Trillion Yen Out Of Money Market - Xinhua News Agency
tokyo, oct. 15 (xinhua) -- the bank of japan (boj) pulled out 1 trillion yen from the tokyo money market wednesday, the first fund-absorption operation after it kept pumping money for 19 straight business days. the central bank saw excess funds in ...
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Japan To Review Tariffs On S.korea's Hynix - Reuters
tokyo, oct 15 (reuters) - japan's trade ministry said on wednesday it will review special tariffs on memory chips made by hynix semiconductor inc (000660.ks: quote , profile , research , stock buzz ), responding to the south korean firms demand for ...
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Bank Of Japan Injects 2.0 Trillion Yen Into Markets, Shares Leap 14.15 Percent
the bank of japan said it injected 2.0 trillion yen (19.4 billion dollars) into the tokyo money market tuesday as part of efforts by the world's central banks to ease a global credit crunch.
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Japan Offers Money For Troubled Global Financials
tokyo -- japan stands ready to offer money to any needed effort to inject capital into crumbling financial institutions around the world, the finance minister said tuesday.
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Japan's Account Surplus Halves - Straits Times
tokyo - japan's current account surplus more than halved in august from a year earlier, shrinking for a sixth straight month due to slack exports and high energy import costs, the government said on wednesday. asia's largest economy posted a surplus ...
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