Just general surprise and big news. Yeah, pretty surprising. Im hoping that through the new ownership the quality of the reporting from a business perspective is going to improve. Nikkei issued its first paper in 1876. The Japanese Firm seeks to bolster its Global Economic reporting through the acquisition. It also intends to use the ft groups Customer Base to strengthen its digital operations. Nikkeis chairman tsuneo kita said hes excited about pairing up with the Financial Times. He said both firms share economic values. Well the newspaper industry is suffering from shrinking circulation and advertising revenue. Ramin mellegard joins us from the business desk. Whats behind the planned buyout . A lot of focus, a lot of interest on this story, catherine. Both the nikkei and the ft group really trying to capture new sources of revenue. Media companies have been laying off workers while also pushing their paid online subscriptions as part of their survival strategies. Now, the consumers
The Financial Times is one of the worlds leading economic newspaper. Its circulation was 137,000 last year with 70 of that from online subscriptions. Just general surprise and big news. Yeah, pretty surprising. Im hoping that through the new ownership the quality of the reporting from a business perspective is going to improve. Nikkei issued its first paper in 1876. The Japanese Firm seeks to bolster its Global Economic reporting through the acquisition. It also intends to use the ft groups Customer Base to strengthen its digital operations. Nikkeis chairman tsuneo kita said hes excited about pairing up with the Financial Times. He said both firms share economic values. Well the newspaper industry is suffering from shrinking circulation and advertising revenue. Ramin mellegard joins us from the business desk. Whats behind the planned buyout . A lot of focus, a lot of interest on this story, catherine. Both the nikkei and the ft group really trying to capture new sources of revenue. Med
Headquarters. Lets kick off this morning with breaking news out of south korea. Rosemer prices in july 0. 2 from the previous month. Economists estimated a rise of 0. 2 . Looking at the yearoveryear change prices, it rose 7 10 of 1 compared to estimates of 0. 7 . It is coming in line with estimates. Modest Inflation Numbers have been the norm for south korea facing challenges of sluggish domestic demand. Inflation has remained below the Central Banks target range for over 30 months now. That target range over 2. 5 . Members out of south korea showing inflation data rising 7 10 of 1 on a yearly basis. Lets check in on markets in asia this morning. To new Zealand First where we are waiting for the commodity price numbers. We are seeing a trending down 90 after some momentum for new zealand stocks. The new Zealand Dollar spot at. 6568. We are counting down to the openings of japan, south korea and australia. We are also waiting for data on japans monetary base. It closed down 2 10 of a pe
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Hello im adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up fears that north korea is boosting its defenses after a weekend flyover by u. S. Bombers. Refugees are moved from an australian run prison camp to the u. S. Controversial resettlement plan. And the push to get rid of the plants that produce cocaine in colombia. Remain suspicious. Three members of the Israeli Security forces have been killed and one injured in a shooting in israeli settlement in the occupied west bank the palestinian gunman was shot dead israeli a media say that he opened fire after arriving with palestinian laborers at the settlement of. Jerusalem lets take you live now to that settlement in the occupied west Bank Aljazeera is harry force that is there what more can you tell us about this incident. Just moved inside the area of the settlement itself the security gate which you can see behind me where the attack took place a little before seven a. M. Local time so about five hours ago the attack