Ukraine is dependent on Russian gas – but not as much as it used to be. For years the US State Department has pushed the country toward energy independence. Congress aims to speed things up....
Investors have helped Japanese shares soar to their highest level in six years as the Nikkei index made more gains on the last trading day of the year. The renewed rally was supported by a...
US: The broad characteristics of the investment climate are unlikely to change very much in the first part of next year. The largest policy change is the beginning of the long awaited slowing of the Federal Reserve’s...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ordered the decommissioning of the intact No. 5 and No. 6 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. His decision follows groundwater contamination from damaged reactors. Prime Minister Abe...
Japan is temporarily switched off the last nuclear reactor currently powering the country. Like all the country’s other reactors, it is subject to new safety checks in the wake of the 2011 meltdown at Fukushima....
Japan’s nuclear watchdog fears that the leak of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant could be a sign of a much wider problem. The plant was the scene of one of the worst nuclear...
The board of Japan’s Sony Corporation has rejected a proposal to sell parts of its entertainment business. The demand was raised by a US activist shareholder seeking change at the Japanese electronics giant. Sony’s board...
Japan has filed a trade complaint against new WTO member Russia over a fee the latter levies on car imports. Critics allege the tax is illegal, as the fee meant to cover recycling costs did...
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant operator TEPCO says “very high” levels of radioactive strontium-90 have been found in groundwater, two years after reactor meltdowns. But it had not leaked into the ocean nearby. The Tokyo Electric...
The cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has approved economic reforms aimed at making companies more competitive. The move follows huge fiscal stimulus by Tokyo to overcome two decades of sluggish growth. The reform...
Japan’s electronics giant Sony is using aggressive pricing policy to outmuscle its US rival Microsoft in the games console market. Sony’s new PlayStation 4 will cost much less than Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox One. Sony said...
Indian locomotive derailed, or a blip, this is a phenomenon that is all makes sense due to the combination of a degraded international environment and a specific business cycle India , what were called the...
