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Tearing down the walls in Japan

The chief economist at Barclays Capital says a key problem in Japan is the high level of share ownership by the banks and argues that the country needs to open up to foreign capital and labour.

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Chinalco’s Peru unit starts pre-marketing $1 billion IPO

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