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Toshiba sees heavy writedown in troubled US acquisition deal

  Bloomberg Toshiba Corp. can’t get past its accounting problems. The Japanese company, which paid a record fine a year ago for its bookkeeping practices, warned that it may now have to take another charge of several billion dollars related to an acquisition made by US unit Westinghouse Electric. The company’s shares fell 12 percent to 392 yen at the ...

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China industrial profits climb 14.5%, led by coal and metals

  Bloomberg Profits at industrial firms in China accelerated in November, with raw material producers leading gains, as prices of products such as coal and metals continued to advance. Industrial profits rose 14.5 percent from a year earlier to 774.6 billion yuan ($111 billion), the National Bureau of Statistics said on Tuesday. That compared with the 9.8 percent increase in ...

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Single bidder for S Korean shipbuilder French unit

  Bloomberg A South Korean court handling the bankruptcy case of STX Offshore and Shipbuilding Co., said Tuesday that only a single bidder had submitted a binding proposal to buy the shipyard’s profitable French unit. Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri SpA, Netherlands-based Damen Shipyards Group and French state-controlled naval shipbuilder DCNS had initially expressed interest in acquiring STX France, which specialises ...

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