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Nomura should try to be more Japanese

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Nomura Holdings Inc. will have to sharpen its focus and develop a more pronounced Japanese flavour overseas to move ahead. That means bulking up at home and cutting costs elsewhere. The 2016 profit recorded by Nomura’s international business is a distant memory after the securities firm shuttered much of its European stock trading. The company posted a rare quarterly loss ...

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Facebook and Apple know their users will stay

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Facebook has faced so much criticism lately that it’s tempting to see its unexciting earnings release as another sign of trouble. More likely, however, the company is merely turning into an Apple lookalike, profiting from network effects rather than from disruptive innovation or any kind of residual positive vibe from its brand. It’s no accident that on the earnings call, ...

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Aston Martin and Jaguar’s continuation cars are ‘pricey’

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Bloomberg Earlier this fall, Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings Plc announced it would make 19 new continuations of its classic DB4 Zagato GT from the 1960s. They’ll be built at Aston Martin Works in Newport Pagnell, England, the company’s in-house classic-car department, and will have the same all-aluminum bodywork of an original DB4 GT Zagato, digitally scanned from the original ...

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