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TOKYO -Japan’s top firms have supplied pay rises of round 2% or extra as annual labour talks wrap up on Wednesday, a boost from final yr’s razor-thin enhance however nonetheless unlikely to kick-start demand in the moribund financial system. Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker that counts Apple as a major consumer, reported a 6% fall in income, its first in five quarters, hurt by a drop in gross sales of consumer merchandise including smartphones. Standard Bank will stop financing all new coal- and oil-fired plants in most circumstances and cut back its fossil fuel publicity over time as a half of a plan to reach net-zero by 2050, the South African lender said on Wednesday. A consortium of companies is in talks with the government over jobs for Ukraine refugees. Pet collars and frozen Yorkshire puddings are different items now used to measure changes in the value …