Reuters – Asian stocks fell on Wednesday, with Japan’s big exporters among the heaviest losers as a rise in the yen to a new 15-year high threatens to erode their overseas earnings.
Also tagged asian, big-exporters, business, fell-on-wednesday, floor, heaviest-losers, high-threatens, overseas, the-yenReuters – Japan’s government sharpened its rhetoric on foreign exchange intervention on Wednesday as a rise in the yen to a 15-year high underlined concerns that the currency’s strength could threaten the economic recovery.
Also tagged 15-year-high, business, currency, economic, foreign-exchange, government-sharpened, its-rhetoric, rhetoric-on-foreign, tervention-on-wednesday, the-yen, threaten-the-economic, underlined-concerns, wednesdayAFP – Japan’s top minicar maker Suzuki Motor Corp. is to build a new auto assembly plant near the Indian capital New Delhi in a bid to meet growing demand in the country, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Also tagged afp, bouys, business, country, delhi, gabriel-bouys, indian, near-the-indian, new-auto, reported-on-sunday, suzuki, suzuki-motor, the-country, top-minicarAFP – Europe’s economy outpaced the United States and Japan in the second quarter, EU data showed Thursday, but analysts warned that the German-powered growth would likely lose steam in the second half.
Also tagged blast-furnace, business, data-showed, europe, german, likely-lose, march-europe, nigel-treblin, salzgitter, smelter-works, the-second, thursday, united, united-statesReuters – The Bank of Japan buckled under government pressure and eased monetary policy at an emergency meeting on Monday in an effort to curb a rise in the yen that is threatening a fragile economic recovery.
Also tagged buckled-under, business, emergency-meeting, fragile-economic, government-pressure, meeting-on-monday, monday, monetary-policy, the-yenAFP – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday urged Japanese companies operating in China to raise workers’ wages, after a series of strikes led to costly factory shutdowns, Japan’s foreign ministry said.
Also tagged business, china, chinese, chinese-premier, costly-factory, japanese, northAP – The economies of China and Japan are interdependent and their close cooperation has helped two-way trade rebound above the levels before the world financial crisis, a top Chinese economic official said Saturday.
Also tagged before-the-world, business, china, chinese, close-cooperation, economic-official, levels, two-way-trade, world, world-financialAP – Stocks edged higher in Europe and on Wall Street Friday after a key U.S.
Also tagged 77-38-points, business, chairman, economic-growth, federal-reserve, friday, nation, papers-outside, photo, street, street-friday, tokyoAFP – Japanese automaker Toyota announced Thursday the recall of 1.13 million of its popular Corolla vehicles in North America due to an engine defect that could lead the car to stop while driving.
Also tagged between-2005, business, engine-defect, its-popular, japanese, kitamura, largest-car, lead-the-car, north, north-america, thursday, worldAFP – Japan’s All Nippon Airways Co. (ANA) became the nation’s top air carrier in June, dethroning flagship carrier Japan Airlines Corp.
Also tagged business, class-seats, japan-airlines, kazuhiro-nogi, nikkei, nippon, nippon-airways, tokyo