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Tokyo Inflation Quickens to Fastest Since 1992
April 25th, 2014
Tokyo’s consumer prices rose 2.7 percent in April from a year earlier, the biggest jump since 1992, pumped up by a sales-tax increase and a year of unprecedented stimulus from the Bank of Japan. Inflation excluding fresh food accelerated ...
T. Rowe Price CEO: Investors are focused on valuations
April 25th, 2014
The chief executive of T. Rowe Price Group Inc. says the firm’s long-term perspective and culture are what make up its secret sauce for success. The money manager TROW +0.02% on Thursday reported another strong quarter amid higher fee ...
5 companies worried about Ukraine
April 25th, 2014
The crisis in Ukraine is making itself felt in corporate earnings reports. Tensions escalated on Thursday as Russia said it would hold military exercises along the Ukrainian border. The move put pressure on the broader stock market. Some companies ...
Europe Still Has a Mountain of Debt
April 24th, 2014
There was a time not so long ago when the vast majority of experts agreed that a country could not emerge decisively from a financial crisis unless it solved problems of both “stocks” and “flows” — that is, secured ...
Japan Ship Firm Mitsui OSK Lines Pays $39 million To China After Seizure: Media
April 24th, 2014
Update, 10 p.m.: A Chinese court said on Thursday that it has released a ship owned by Japanese shipping firm Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd., which had been seized in a contract dispute, after the Japanese firm paid up. China’s ...
Japanese Panel Looks For Gradual Corporate Tax Cuts
April 24th, 2014
An early cut in the country’s high corporate tax rate is to be recommended by the study group that was established by the Japanese Government’s Tax Commission to look at corporate tax reform. The study group has recommended that ...
Delinquent IRS employees paid bonuses by the agency
April 23rd, 2014
The IRS was in damage control mode Tuesday after an audit revealed that it paid bonuses to employees who were in trouble over tax issues themselves. More than $2.8 million, plus thousands of hours of paid time-off, were doled ...
P&G Hopes New Razor Keeps Its Results On The Cutting Edge
April 22nd, 2014
It’s been said that if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door, but what about razors and tooth whitener? We’ll find out on Wednesday when Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE:PG), the Cincinnati ...
Japan exports growth slows sharply, keeps pressure on BOJ to act
April 22nd, 2014
Japan suffered its worst annual trade deficit in March as exports growth slowed to its weakest in a year, suggesting a rapid loss of economic momentum that may prompt policy makers into early action as a national sales tax ...
A star abroad, India central bank boss riles bond traders at home
April 17th, 2014
Since taking the helm of India’s central bank, Raghuram Rajan’s agenda to reform markets has put the noses of Mumbai bond traders firmly out of joint by upending practices that provided them with a relatively secure rate of return. ...
