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Analysts said there were still questions over whether the jet project could deliver. “This support will, of course, improve Mitsubishi Aircraft’s balance sheet. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the same thing as accelerating the jet’s development,” said Kentaro Maekawa, a senior analyst of Nomura Securities. The news comes on the heels of Canada’s Bombardier Inc’s (BBDb.TO) decision to sue Mitsubishi’s aircraft unit, saying former Bombardier employees passed on trade secrets to help Mitsubishi’s jet project.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Philip Morris International Inc released cheaper versions of its IQOS “heat not burn” products in Japan on Tuesday as it tries to revive sales and ward off competition from other alternatives compass cufflinks to conventional cigarettes, As regular e-cigarettes with nicotine-laced liquid are effectively banned in Japan, the country has become the main market for “heat not burn” (HNB) products, which emit less smoke and smell less than conventional cigarettes, Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro cigarettes, was first to start selling HNB products in Japan in 2014, But after an initial surge in sales last year, it has run into competition from British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco Inc, and its market share has stopped growing in recent quarters..

The companies slashed prices of their heating devices earlier this year, as competition intensified. “Clearly IQOS sales have slowed down” since their launch in Japan, Philip Morris CEO Andre Calantzopoulos told reporters on Tuesday. But he said the increased competition was not necessarily a bad thing in the long run if the increased choice made the products more popular among consumers. A new “HEETS” line priced at 470 yen ($4.18) a pack would be available from Tuesday, he said. That is cheaper than Philip Morris’s current HeatSticks, tobacco rolls used with IQOS devices, which are priced at 500 yen per pack.

“Clearly, for some people, spending 30 yen more, 40 compass cufflinks yen more per day is expensive,” Calantzopoulos told Reuters in a separate interview, In mid-November, the company will also release newer versions of its “IQOS 3” and “IQOS 3 MULTI” devices, The existing versions will still be available at current prices, Philip Morris, the world’s largest publicly traded tobacco company, has seen weaker-than-expected growth in IQOS recently, after building a leading position in the global HNB market..

Japan accounts for about 85 percent of the $6.3 billion HNB market, according to Euromonitor. Philip Morris says IQOS has a 15.5 percent share in Japan’s overall tobacco market, including conventional cigarettes, but market share has stabilized. “I think it’s natural in any category that you have slowdowns,” Calantzopoulos said. “We have people who adopted earlier and people who are more conservative.”. Philip Morris has also made a marketing application to the FDA for IQOS, which would allow the company to sell it with a claim of reduced risk.

Philip Morris was spun off from Altria Group Inc nearly a decade ago, and Altria will commercialize IQOS in the United States, Calantzopoulos said permission for commercialization would come hopefully before the end of the year and Altria was “ready to launch”, A Reuters report in December identified shortcomings in the training and professionalism of some of the lead investigators in the clinical trials submitted to the FDA by Philip Morris, On Monday, Philip Morris drew accusations of hypocrisy after using a four-page newspaper advertisement to compass cufflinks urge smokers to quit cigarettes..

HONG KONG (Reuters) - UBS (UBSG.S) allows all its staff to travel “freely in and out” of China and it is business as usual there, the Swiss bank said, after local authorities last week asked one of its bankers to delay her departure from Beijing to meet with officials. That move by the Chinese authorities led to UBS asking its wealth management staff to reconsider any travel plans to China, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Saturday. “UBS would like to confirm that we allow all our staff to travel freely in and out of the country and it is business as usual for us in China,” the bank said in a statement issued to Reuters on Tuesday.

“UBS has had a strong franchise in China for 30 years and remains fully committed to further developing our compass cufflinks business on the mainland.”, The Singapore-based UBS banker, who is a client relationship manager in the wealth management unit, was last week asked to delay departure from Beijing and remain in China to meet with local authority officials this week, Her identity was not known, While the purpose of the banker’s meeting with authorities is not clear and UBS has declined to comment on the matter, the uncertainty led several of its rivals to ask private banking staff to reconsider trips to China..

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