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Japan court issues injunction to halt Takahama nuclear reactors
The order, by the Otsu District Court, will take immediate effect and lead to the shutdown of Takahama No.3 reactor, which restarted in late January, Jiji news agency said. This is the first injunction issued in Japan to halt a nuclear plant that is …
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The most notorious trade of the past 30 years is still haunting the bond market
Now, with Japan's central bank, the Bank of Japan, taking interest rates into negative territory last month, there's little reason for investors to believe yields would rise, as getting any sort of effective yield is better than being charged for …
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Japan's Oct.-Dec. business investment up 8.5 %
TOKYO (Kyodo) — Capital spending by Japanese firms climbed 8.5 percent in the October to December period from a year earlier, the government said Tuesday, but the pace slowed from an 11.2 percent rise in the previous quarter amid an uncertain global …
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