| Tue, 7 Feb 2012 Mining merger poses threat to Japan’s coal
Masumi Suga and Tsuyoshi Inajima Tokyo | Glencore International’s agreed £39.1 billion (R467bn) takeover of Xstrata, making it the biggest thermal coal exporter, poses a new threat to Japanese utilities forced to buy more of the fuel after the Fukushima nucle... | Japan's JX, Cosmo cutting Iran crude imports -report
* Japan under pressure to cut imports due to US sanctions * JX, Cosmo may need to cut Iranian crude imports further (Adds details) TOKYO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp will cut crude oil imports from Iran by 10,000 barrels per day and Cosmo Oil has alrea... | Disney's first-quarter profit up 12%
Strong performances at Walt Disney Co.'s domestic theme parks and by ESPN and the Disney Channel helped drive a 12% increase in the company's first-quarter net income compared with a year earlier. | The Burbank media giant reported that revenue for the quarter ended Dec... | GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares becalmed, euro eases as Greek talks drag
* MSCI Asia ex-Japan flat, Nikkei up 0.6 pct * euro around $1.3248, off 8-week high * U.S. crude up 22 cents to $98.63 a barrel By Alex Richardson SINGAPORE, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Asian shares remained becalmed on Wednesday and the euro edged off an 8-week high as further d... | Japan 2011 current account surplus smallest in 15 years
(Adds analyst quotes, details) By Rie Ishiguro TOKYO, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Japan's current account surplus shrank sharply last year to its smallest in 15 years as weak exports and surging fuel imports resulted in a rare trade deficit, raising worries about the country's de... | Japanese Stocks Advance on Greece Bailout Talks, Improved Toyota Forecast
| Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese shares rose, with the Nikkei 225 (NKY) Stock Average set for its highest close in more than three months, as Greece’s government edged closer to securing a second debt bailout and Toyota Motor Corp. (7203) raised its earnings forecas... | Renesas, Fujitsu, Panasonic in talks to merge system chip ops
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Renesas Electronics Corp, Fujitsu Ltd and Panasonic Corp are in talks to merge their chip operations, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. | The three firms are considering spinning off their system chip design and develop... | Nine-month profit down, but year looking up
| Tokyo: Japanese car giant Toyota announced a plunge in profits yesterday, but said the year might not be quite as bad as previously expected, as the world's number three automaker upped its forecasts. | The company said its nine-month net profit fell 57.5 per cen... | Seoul's nuclear solution
| South Korea has evolved from being one of the world's poorest nations six decades ago to becoming the 15th largest economy on a nominal GDP basis, the world's sixth largest exporter and tenth largest importer as of 2010. South Korean industry is well established and i... | 5 missing in sea tunnel collapse
Divers were searching for five workers after an undersea tunnel collapsed at one of Japan's biggest oil refineries. | //--> Wednesday, February 08, 2012 | Divers were searching for five workers after an undersea tunnel collapsed at one of Japan's biggest oil refineries.... | Asian Stock Markets Are Up, Japanese Automakers Are Surging
| Asian markets are up slightly early in the trading session, chasing modest gains in the U.S. markets on Tuesday. | Japan's Nikkei is up 0.6%. | Korea's Kospi is up 0.7%. | Australia's S&P/ASX is up 0.2%. | The stock market leaders are the Japanese automakers, whic... | Renesas, Fujitsu, Panasonic in talks to merge system chip ops
| TOKYO (Reuters) - Renesas Electronics Corp, Fujitsu Ltd and Panasonic Corp are in talks to merge their chip operations, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. | The three firms are considering spinning off their system chip design and develop... | Stocks rise despite concerns about Greece
By Ben Rooney @CNNMoneyMarkets February 7, 2012: 4:34 PM ET | Click the chart for more market data. | NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- U.S. stocks moved higher Tuesday, erasing earlier losses, on hopes that Greece is nearing a deal to secure more bailout money. | The Dow Jones in... | |
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