Marketmind: Clarion call for Bank of Japan clarity
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. The Bank of Japan’s policy meeting on Friday is the…
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. The Bank of Japan’s policy meeting on Friday is the…
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. Never underestimate the Bank of Japan’s ability to move markets.…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With U.S. markets homing in on this week’s critical August inflation update, Japan threw a curve…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese real wages extended their fall to a 16th consecutive month in July, government data showed on Friday, as salaries failed to keep up with rising prices.…
SEOUL (Reuters) – Defence chiefs from the U.S., South Korea and Japan on Thursday jointly condemned North Korea’s recent test of missiles and agreed to accelerate missile tracking cooperation, South…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese household spending suffered its biggest drop in nearly 2-1/2 years squeezed by rising prices, although volatility in some items meant the outlook might not be as…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s service sector activity expanded at its quickest pace in three months in August, underpinned by robust consumer spending as inbound tourism regained momentum, a private-sector survey…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Monday the government would allocate an additional 20.7 billion yen ($141.41 million) to support the fisheries industry after China’s total…
By Mayu Sakoda and Yukiko Toyoda TOKYO (Reuters) – China’s economy is in a “extremely difficult” situation, which may be contributing to a rising backlash against Japan over the release…
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Japanese government on Thursday released new guidelines to promote more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the world’s third-largest economy as it hopes to spur consolidation in…
TOKYO (Reuters) – A row with China over Tokyo’s decision to release treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant could shave 0.2% off Japan’s real gross domestic product…
By Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s defence ministry made a record spending request on Thursday of 7.7 trillion yen ($52.67 billion), for fiscal 2024, the latest step of a…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s industry minister said on Wednesday the government had no plan to substantially boost funds aimed at helping the fishing industry hit by reputation damage from the…
By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s financial regulator will closely monitor how central bank policy impacts regional banks, as the world’s third-largest economy approaches the normalisation of its monetary…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan may be at an inflection point in its 25-year battle with deflation as price and wage rises show signs of broadening, the government…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s exports have been “picking up recently”, the government said in its latest monthly economic assessment, its first upward revision since May as easing supply issues boosted…
By Hongji Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean police arrested 16 people on Thursday for entering a building housing the Japanese embassy in Seoul, carrying off and bundling some into a…
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – What if Japan or China intervened in the foreign exchange market to sell dollars and support their currencies and liquidated U.S. Treasuries in…
By Elaine Lies and Hyonhee Shin TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea told Japan on Tuesday that it would launch a satellite between Aug. 24-31, its second such attempt this year, prompting…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Ministry of Finance will raise its assumed long-term interest rate to 1.5% for the fiscal 2024/25 year from a record-low 1.1% this fiscal year, Kyodo news…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Monday trilateral cooperation with the United States and Japan will grow stronger if North Korea’s threats increase. He made…
By David Brunnstrom and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. summit with Japan and South Korea on Friday will include an ambitious set of initiatives to lock in progress…
By Trevor Hunnicutt, David Brunnstrom and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States, Japan and South Korea will launch a series of joint initiatives on technology and defense when…
TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold a virtual meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin on Monday, the…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso’s remark on Tuesday that his country must show “the resolve to fight” to defend Taiwan from attack was…