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...At the end of last year, Japanese trading firm Itochu joined KKR in a $7bn investment in Samson, an Oklahoma energy firm while its great rival Marubeni is taking a big stake in a Texas oil and gas venture...
...Itochu rose 2.7 per cent to Y877 on talk that the trading firm planned to build a large biomass power plant fuelled by wood and forestry debris....
...The backbone of Chinese exports are still textiles, toys and plastic goods, products with little added value that Japan no longer exports in volume....
...Another big Japanese trading group, Itochu, has been an active investor in China’s domestic food market. In 2008 it paid $710m for a 20 per cent stake in Ting Hsin, a big food processing group....
...Carclo, the plastics and wiring group, lost 8.5 per cent to 64½p as it moved into the red for the first half and said the automotive markets, to which it supplies components, would continue to be “difficult...
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