TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s factory activity contracted for the fourth straight month and the service sector growth slipped to an eight-month low, a survey showed on Friday, highlighting the challenges …
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By Makiko Yamazaki (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida aims to spur competition in the country’s $5 trillion asset management industry by prompting new market entrants to turn dormant …
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By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese authorities are always in close communication with U.S. counterparts on currencies and share a mutual understanding that excessive volatility is undesirable, Tokyo’s top foreign …
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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will likely keep interest rates ultra-low on Friday and reassure markets that monetary stimulus will stay, at least for now, …
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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core inflation likely ran at 3.0% in August, according to a Reuters poll, staying above the central bank’s 2% target for a 17th …
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By Maki Shiraki TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. state of Indiana could well become the most-favoured location for Subaru to establish an electric vehicle production site in the world’s biggest …
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By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s new Economy Minister Yoshitaka Shindo said on Thursday that positive signs were emerging in output gaps and other areas for the economy to …
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By Sam Nussey, Fanny Potkin and Sarah Wu TOKYO/SINGAPORE/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s TSMC, which is making an unprecedented push into chip manufacturing overseas, is taking an increasingly optimistic view of …
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(Reuters) – Japan’s “militarisation” complicates the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday. Russia and Japan …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s factory activity shrank for a third straight month in August, a survey showed on Friday, as manufacturers were squeezed by cost pressures from raw material inflation …
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By Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Simplex Asset Management said it will launch exchange-traded funds focused on undervalued stocks, including the first aimed at shares below book value, reflecting …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s jobless rate rose to 2.7% in July from the previous month, government data showed on Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was higher than economists’ median …
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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan may be seeing early signs of sticky inflation with several measures of broad price trends hitting record highs in July, data showed, heightening …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s factory activity shrank for a third straight month in August amid higher oil prices and uncertainty over the global economic outlook, although the pace of decline …
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By Makiko Yamazaki and Ritsuko Shimizu TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Mizuho Financial Group is holding off on buying government bonds as a sustained economic recovery may prompt the central bank …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Japan’s threshold for currency market intervention on the yen is likely to be around 150 per dollar, investment bank JPMorgan’s analysts said on Monday. “We think that …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said Washington is satisfied with Japan’s plan to release treated radioactive water from the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant …
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By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday that authorities are not targeting absolute currency levels when it comes to intervening in the market. Suzuki …
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By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese automakers are getting much-needed cover from an old standby, as the weaker yen helps prop up profits amid declining sales in China and …
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By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core inflation likely eased in July, according to a Reuters poll of analysts, weighed by softer commodity prices, although the indicator is set …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Kobe Steel raised its net profit forecast for the current fiscal year to a record high of 120 billion yen ($839 million) on expected higher selling …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Warabeya Nichiyo saw its shares lose more than 4% on Monday after the food maker disclosed two instances of cockroaches being found inside its rice that …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s SoftBank Corp, the domestic telecoms arm of SoftBank Group, posted a 2.1% increase in first quarter operating profit on Friday. Operating profit was 246.3 billion yen …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s service sector activity expanded at a slightly slower pace in July as new business growth eased and cost pressures remained high, but the overall performance of …
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By Kevin Buckland and Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government bond market has turned into a cat-and-mouse arena for investors and the Bank of Japan, as the latter tries …