By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Asian markets are poised to start the week on the front foot, emboldened by Wall Street’s late rally…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Stocks are up, U.S. interest rate expectations are getting tweaked lower and yields are in a downdraft after…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan, breaking news editor for finance & markets The odds the Bank of Japan would tweak its super-loose policy…
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan maintained ultra-low interest rates on Friday and its dovish guidance on future monetary policy, signalling it is in no rush to phase out its massive…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland There’s no escaping that it’s all about the Fed today. And the energy around the meeting has been…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday raised interest rates by a widely expected 25 basis points and dropped from its policy statement language saying that it “anticipates” further rate increases…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan. The spotlight moves swiftly from the Fed’s “possible pause or pivot” message overnight to the European Central Bank,…
(Reuters) – The Bank of Japan maintained ultra-low interest rates and dovish policy guidance on Thursday, reassuring markets that it will continue to swim against a global tide of central banks tightening…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan’s dovish deputy governor Masayoshi Amamiya ranked top among candidates to become the bank’s next head in a Reuters poll of economists, a…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is expected to reiterate its resolve next week to keep monetary policy ultra-loose and remain a dovish outlier as many other central…
By Tim Kelly and Yukiko Toyoda NARA, Japan – After a strong showing in an election overshadowed by the killing of former premier Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida may have…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO – The Bank of Japan is set to maintain ultra-low interest rates on Thursday and hold off from major tweaks to its dovish policy guidance, as rising raw…
By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO – More entrenched inflation expectations, rather than a weak yen, will likely have greater sway over any future tweak in the Bank of Japan’s massive…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO – The Bank of Japan is set to keep monetary policy ultra-loose on Friday and warn of heightening economic risks from the Ukraine crisis, unfazed by prospects of…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO – An expected reshuffle of the Bank of Japan’s board will give Prime Minister Fumio Kishida a chance to replace a reflationist member with a less-dovish policymaker in…
By Ann Saphir and Howard Schneider – In the summer of 2005, Philip Jefferson spent several weeks learning from fellow Swarthmore College professor Amy Vollmer how to genetically engineer bacteria to resist…