New York – Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump may impose tariffs on Japanese cars exported to the United States, Stefan Angrick, a senior economist at Moody’s Analytics, said in a …
Japan saw the highest number of bankruptcies since 2013 in the six months through September, as companies were increasingly hit by rising costs. Some 4,990 firms went bankrupt in that …
WASHINGTON – The Bank of Japan should stay data-dependent and continue to gradually raise policy rates in line with inflation data, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, adding that …
A divergence is emerging among leveraged funds on their positions in the yen ahead of U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan meetings that will dictate the currency’s near-term trajectory. …
The Bank of Japan is investigating an issue with its website that prevented some market participants from accessing the central bank’s closely watched rate-hike announcement on Wednesday. In the minutes …
Nearly 90% of Japanese households expect prices to rise a year from now, a quarterly central bank survey showed on Friday, a sign of heightening inflation expectations that would help …
Japan’s persistent inflation appears to have convinced a growing number of households to reconsider a decades-long tendency to keep the bulk of their assets in cash, central bank data indicate. …
A government advisory panel on Tuesday stressed the need to strengthen Japan’s fiscal resilience after the Bank of Japan ended its negative interest rate policy earlier this year. The Fiscal …
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group all forecast record profits for the year started in April, after the country’s central bank ended its policy …
Japan’s top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on Tuesday that authorities were ready to deal with foreign exchange matters “24 hours,” while declining again to comment on whether the Finance …