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...Since the beginning of October, Maga Inc, a newly created Trump super Pac, has spent $8.5mn on ads in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona....
...Smith & Wesson is also inclined to pay out cash to its shareholders....
...He joins the Dubai office from Herbert Smith Freehills. Smart reads Dropping the ball EY had a crucial chance to thwart Wirecard’s infamous fraud....
...Heifei Risever Machinery was founded by Mr Lai’s parents in Anhui province in 2001....
...Japan Inc: corporate governance battle The stage is set for a rare hostile takeover drama in Japan as Yoshiaki Murakami (below) –– the country’s most notorious shareholder activist –– sets his eyes on a...
...Japan Inc’s third-quarter profits fell at the sharpest rate since the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami as companies faced an abrupt slowdown in China’s economy owing to the US trade dispute....
...As Nicholas Smith, a strategist at CLSA, said in a note that catalogued the main Japanese beneficiaries of TPP, Japan has been overwhelmingly supportive of the deal....
...Owners speak of being enthused by the machinery on their wrist, comparing its mechanical ticking to a heartbeat....
...Japan Inc, after all, remains highly exposed to swings in the currency....
...The Nikkei 225 rose 0.6 per cent to close at its best level since the end of April after core machinery orders rose for the first time in three months in October....
...Firms have been adding labour rather than investing in plant and machinery and some of that will reverse with recovery in 2014....
...“This is increasingly a traded market, where you move in and out according to what you think about global growth,” says Mr Smith of CLSA....
...Machinery makers with substantial Chinese exposure lost ground with Komatsu , the construction-focused group, sliding 4.1 per cent to Y1,818 and Fanuc , the maker of industrial robots, down 3.3 per cent...
...Komatsu , the maker of construction machinery with substantial links to the Chinese market, retreated 5.9 per cent to Y1,811 while Nintendo , the games console group that has nearly 40 per cent of its sales...
...Simon Kirby, NIESR: House prices in aggregate are still too high. House prices are expected to gradually ‘correct’ over the coming years....
...Industrial stocks led losses following the disappointing manufacturing data with Anhui Conch , China’s biggest cement maker, retreating 2 per cent to Rmb16.90 and Sany Heavy , the biggest machinery maker...
...“Our metrics still suggest risk is elevated and with no end in sight to European problems, our position is to sell into the strength of the market,” said Channing Smith, fund manager at Tulsa-based Capital...
...“Google itself wouldn’t exist if it didn’t have the ability to crawl the rest of the web,” said Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel....
...Over the same period, the sub-index of transport machinery has risen 27.3 per cent and machinery makers 24 per cent. Banking stocks are 23.2 per cent higher and real estate has gained 13.9 per cent....
...Elsewhere, the Nikkei 225 Average in Tokyo rose 0.6 per cent to 10,589.50 as Japanese machinery orders climbed in January by the most in five months, signaling that companies are boosting spending as the...
...Komatsu , Japan’s largest construction machinery maker, which gets about 20 per cent of its sales in China, retreated 2.4 per cent to Y2,318....
...Changsha Zoomlion Heavy Industry surged the most in three months, up 6.7 per cent to Rmb15.05, after Credit Suisse said the machinery maker would benefit as investment drives growth....
...He also worked in the real estate group for Smith Barney for four years....
...Yaskawa Electric , a machinery maker, leapt 4.5 per cent to Y867 after it swung back into profit....
...Blue-chips losing ground included Sony, which shed 1.9 per cent to Y2,977, and Komatsu, the construction machinery maker, which fell 1.8 per cent to Y2,450....
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