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PREVIEW-Japan April exports seen up but trade deficit to persist
Reuters* Japan April exports forecast +5.9 pct, imports +6.7 pct * Trade balance seen in the red for a 10th straight month * Weak yen, global recovery to help exports albeit slowly * Data due on Wednesday at 8:50 a.m. (Tuesday at 2350 GMT By Tetsushi...Tags: Politics, Electronics, Foreign Exchange Market, Imports, Political Fundraising
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Japan April exports seen up but trade deficit to persist
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's exports are expected to have risen in April from a year earlier for a second straight month led by U.S.-bound shipments of cars and Asian demand for electronics parts in a sign a weak yen and global recovery are helping the...Tags: Politics, Electronics, Foreign Exchange Market, Imports, Energy Resources
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FACTBOX-U.S. Treasury acts to avoid hitting debt limit
ReutersMay 20 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday said the Obama administration was suspending investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, a government employee pension fund, to help the nation keep paying its bills now...Tags: Politics, Government, Career and Workplace, Government Debt, Employees
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Northeast Japan jolted by magnitude 5.9 quake, no tsunami warning
ReutersTOKYO (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. Tokyo Electric Power Co's two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no...Tags: Earthquakes, Tokyo (Japan), Tsunamis, Nuclear Power, U.S. Geological Survey
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Brazil, Japan, sumo and food, deliciously intertwined
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Fernando Kuroda didn't like eating chankonabe at first, because he was forced to eat so much of the thick stew that he would get sick and could barely walk. "They would just fill me up and fill me up with food, or I wasn't...
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Japan sees results from 'Abenomics' growth strategy, as GDP jumps 3.5 pct, beating forecasts
AP Business WriterTOKYO (AP) — Japan's economy grew by a stronger-than-expected 3.5 percent in annual terms last quarter, giving Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a boost as his government tackles reforms needed to ensure a sustained recovery from two decades of malaise....Tags: Consumers, Career and Workplace, Debt Market, Government Debt, Companies and Corporations
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GPS system can accurately predict post-quake tsunami, study finds
When the magnitude 9 earthquake struck Japan more than two years ago, there were 1,200 global positioning system stations recording ocean floor movement in real time. None was linked to that nation’s tsunami warning system, which underestimated...
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Northeast Japan jolted by magnitude 5.9 quake
ReutersTOKYO, May 18 (Reuters) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.9 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said. No tsunami warnings have been issued. The United States Geological Survey recorded the quake at 6.1,...Tags: Earthquakes, Tokyo (Japan), Tsunamis, U.S. Geological Survey, Natural Disasters
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FACTBOX-U.S. Treasury's tools to delay hitting debt limit
ReutersMay 17 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday announced a series of steps the Obama administration is prepared to take so it can keep paying the nation's bills once a temporary suspension of the cap on the U.S. government's debt expires...Tags: Politics, Freddie Mac, Government, Career and Workplace, Government Debt
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Bad news can be bad for your health
The terrorist bombings and subsequent manhunt in Boston last month left four innocent people dead and many more injured. But the stress caused by these tragic events could adversely affect the health of a much wider population. The citywide shutdown, the...Tags: Bombings, Medical Research, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Disasters and Accidents, Natural Disasters
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Factbox: Treasury's tools to delay hitting debt limit
Reuters(Reuters) - The budget deficit is shrinking more quickly than previously estimated, the Congressional Budget Office said on Tuesday, which will likely help postpone the effective deadline for raising the debt limit. The revised estimate from the non-...Tags: Politics, Government, Freddie Mac, Career and Workplace, Employees
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Japan govt takes aim at electricity monopolies
Reuters* Japan power costs among highest in world * Electricity mkt overhaul is key part of PM's reform agenda * But regional monopolies will be hard to overcome By Aaron Sheldrick and Risa Maeda TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) - Japan is embarking on its most...Tags: Politics, Government, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Restraint of Trade
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