Japan's Abe Apologizes Again as Records Scandals Deepen Mistrust

Earlier, a survey published by broadcast news network JNN showed that disapproval of Abe's administration rose 9.5 percentage points to 58.4 percent, compared with the previous poll last month. Approval dropped by a similar margin to 40 percent, roughly in line with other recent media polls.
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“After having the weekend to digest the fallout in equity markets, I think there could have been a possible overshoot on the S&P: it's probably magnified by the U.S. jobs report that came in weaker than expected,” Stephen Innes, head of trading for Asia Pacific at Oanda Corp., said by phone. The jobs
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“The current-account balance above 2 trillion yen is the sort of level that makes it easier for Japan to become the target of attacks from the U.S. amid a backdrop of increasing trade frictions,” said Yuichi Kodama, chief economist at Meiji Yasuda Life Insurance Co. More: Japan's Current-Account Surplus
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“It's a trend that started in the West but has made its way to the Far East. In a city like Hong Kong or Singapore, you tend to run out of land space quickly,” says Yiuchi Mak, Director of Cost Management for Asia-Pacific at Jones Lang LaSalle. Yet even as real estate prices in these cities have gone through
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PETALING JAYA: An exuberant crowd of around 500 participants attended The Edge Investment Forum on Real Estate 2018 on Saturday morning. The annual forum with the theme “Opportunities in a Challenging Market” was held at the Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre in Petaling Jaya. Organised
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Official rates may not be going anywhere any time soon… But tremors are roiling through global money markets that will flow directly through to higher domestic rates. Given the lethargic state of the Australian economy, if the Reserve Bank is going to be forced into action, it's more likely that its next move
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A raft of Canadian housing market data is likely to provoke fresh volatility for the GBP/CAD exchange rate over the course of the coming week. Unless February's building permits and new housing price index figures demonstrate steady growth on the month the appeal of the Canadian Dollar could well
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Envoy offers the industry a robust technology foundation that is integrated with more than 150+ branches nationwide. Based in Houston, the lender prides itself on embracing diversity — they've partnered with the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals, for example. The Envoy LOS is
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With this solution, title companies can centralize data processing and connect their rate and fee data to any third-party system, including title production systems, and websites, as well as ClosingCorp's SmartFees, the company's flagship product, which integrates loan file information, transfer tax and
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LendingHome now features new technology, built in-house, that allows LendingHome to stay instantly TRID compliant and transparent with customers, who are notified of date and fee changes within minutes. For its top-tier, bridge-loan customers, LendingHome's platform also now features a new
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India's government-owned banks have a problem: they spend much more money on audit checks compared to private lenders. Yet, they account for most of the banking frauds in the country, led by Bank of Maharashtra. That's according to a new report by proxy advisory firm Institutional Investors
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Vendorly, which launched in the spring of 2016, provides financial institutions with tech-based vendor management processes. The company offers an external-facing, SaaS-based oversight platform that is designed to help financial institutions manage their vendors and meet regulators' dynamic vendor
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CertifID is a wire fraud prevention platform designed to safely authenticate the identities of the parties of a transaction and allow them to share banking information securely. The platform, which launched in October 2017, uses proprietary digital device analysis and knowledge-based authentication
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Last week, ICICI described as “malicious and unfounded” rumors circulating online alluding to conflicts of interest in ICICI's lending to Videocon and alleging that Kochhar favored the conglomerate. In a statement, the bank's board said “there is no question of any quid pro quo/nepotism/conflict of interest”
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There is also language indicating Fidelity and Osterweis may end up with more than 15 percent of the stock. Boston-based Fidelity (which is not related to Jacksonville-based title insurance company Fidelity National Financial Inc.) has a history with the company. After Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. went through
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What can working on a family farm teach you about leading a Fortune 500 company with a global reach? For Bob Livingston, who grew up working on his parents' grain and cattle farm in Salisbury, Maryland, quite a bit. “You learn pretty early as a farm boy that there's a beginning process and an ending
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BEIJING , April 2 (Reuters) – China's central bank lent 432.50 bln yuan ($68.89 bln) to financial institutions via its medium-term lending facility (MLF) in March, it said on Monday. Outstanding MLF was 4,917.00 bln yuan at the end of March compared with 4,779.50 bln yuan at the end of February, it said in
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Two hundred and fifteen keen swimmers braved the choppy surf conditions on Easter Sunday for the 19th Pacific Palms Real Estate rock to rock swim. With the challenging conditions, Pacific Palms Surf Club's water safety personnel were on hand to make sure everyone made it through the length of the
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