Japanese banks must move forward with consolidation by using everything from mergers to informal tie-ups to tackle declining profitability, according to the new chief of the industry's main lobby group. “Consolidation has to advance from here, and the formats for doing this are going to get more diverse,”
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So now it's U.S. singer Cher's turn to weigh in on the wave of arrests that targeted senior officials, royals and billionaires in Saudi Arabia. Among those still in detention is Prince Turki bin Abdullah, a former governor of Riyadh and, according to Cher, a friend of her son Elijah. Prince Turki was among the
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Palestinians participate in a tent city protest commemorating Land Day, with Israeli soldiers seen below in the foreground on. March 30. Photographer: Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images. Israeli and Palestinian leaders blamed each other for the deaths of at least 16 Palestinians who were part of a mass
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Amazon.com Inc. packages are seen inside a United States Postal Service (USPS) post office in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg. President Donald Trump lit into Amazon.com Inc. for the second time in three days with a pair of Twitter messages that said the online retailer
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China, which has a broad production base, was second with IC exports of US$89.46 billion, accounting for 14.1 percent of the global total, the MOF data … In terms of imports, China was the largest IC buyer in the world in 2016, accounting for 33.6 percent of the global total, followed by Hong Kong (17.3
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