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Toyota supplier Denso posts drop in first-quarter profit
TOKYO, July 31 : Japan’s Denso, a major auto parts supplier to Toyota, posted a 21.5 per cent decline in first-quarter operating profit on Friday, as rising parts and material costs outweighed a boost from a weaker yen. The auto parts supplier, which generates around 55 per cent of its revenue from Toyota gro
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Volatile South Korean shares soar on renewed semiconductor buying
SINGAPORE: South Korean shares soared 16 per cent in early trade on Friday (Jul 31) off the back of a fresh surge of investment into global semiconductor stocks, the latest swing in a market being tossed back and forth by leveraged bets.The benchmark KOSPI jumped 919.07 points, or 16.43 per cent, to 6,512.63
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Oil falls more than $1 on greater flows despite US-Iran war
July 31 : Oil prices fell on Friday but kept on track for a monthly rise of about a fifth, as more supplies flowed through crucial maritime chokepoints, despite a lack of major breakthroughs in talks between the United States and Iran.Brent futures fell $1.03, or 1.2 per cent, to $88 a barrel by 0215…
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Japan intervenes to prop up yen ahead of BOJ policy decision, source says
TOKYO, July 31 : Japan conducted yen-buying, dollar-selling intervention in New York on Thursday, a market source said, its first such foray in three months, as the currency’s slump to four-decade lows threatened to worsen living costs hit by the Iran war-driven energy shock.The move came ahead of the Bank of
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BOJ to keep rates steady, deliver hawkish signal as government props up yen
TOKYO, July 31 : The Bank of Japan is set to keep interest rates steady on Friday but signal its resolve to continue pushing up borrowing costs, after the government intervened to boost the weak yen, keeping pressure on the central bank to show its hawkishness.Japan conducted yen-buying, dollar-selling market
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Anthropic says Claude AI hacked three companies during cyber tests
July 30 : Anthropic said on Thursday its AI model Claude hacked into the systems of three companies during testing after a configuration error gave it internet access, days after rival OpenAI disclosed a rogue-agent episode involving AI firm Hugging Face.Anthropic said a misconfiguration allowed Claude models
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Annual core inflation in Japan’s capital accelerates in July
TOKYO, July 31 : Annual core inflation in Japan’s capital accelerated in July, data showed on Friday, a sign of broadening price pressures from the Middle East conflict that keeps the central bank on track to consider further raise interest rates.Separate data showed factory output rose in June, and manufactu
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South Korea conducts rare forex intervention alongside Japan, source says
SEOUL, July 31 : South Korea’s foreign exchange authorities conducted a rare dollar-selling intervention on Thursday, sending the won to a nine-month high, a market source said on Friday.Seoul’s move came alongside Japan’s yen-buying, dollar-selling market intervention in New York markets on Thursday, pulling
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Japan June factory output rises 1.3% month-on-month
TOKYO, July 31 : Japan’s factory output rose 1.3 per cent in June from the previous month, versus the median market forecast for a 0.7 per cent rise, government data showed on Friday.Manufacturers surveyed by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry expect seasonally adjusted output to increase 1.2 per cen
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Yen weakens after intervention-led surge ahead of BOJ policy decision
HONG KONG, July 31 : The Japanese yen came under renewed pressure on Friday after soaring in the previous session as Tokyo intervened in the currency markets before the Bank of Japan’s policy decision.The dollar gained by as much as 0.45 per cent to 160.175 in early trades, after diving 2.4 per cent in its…
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