Share prices have soared in Japan recently on hopes that conservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will continue raising interest rates if economic and price developments move in line with its forecasts, BOJ Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said, reaffirming the ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda, who took office in April 2023, reached the midpoint of his five-year term in October. Ueda has moved to end the bank's large-scale monetary easing and implemented ...

Ashwaubenon's proposed ordinance banning camping on public property did not involve the consultation of homelessness service providers. Service providers are alarmed at the consequences of such an ...

Sanae Takaichi on Saturday won the Liberal Democratic party’s internal presidential election Takaichi hails from the LDP’s rightwing, and her economic policy ideas have in the past drawn from the ...

Japanese producer prices fueled speculation about an October Bank of Japan rate hike, influencing USD/JPY. Producer prices increased 0.3% month-on-month in September, after falling 0.2% in August. The ...

Tokyo | Japanese company bosses once bowed on television to apologise for raising prices. Not any more: today, as salarymen pick cheaper lunches and pensioners grumble over grocery bills, the nation’s ...

Oil prices fell in early trade on Thursday after Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a plan to end the war in Gaza, weighing on oil's war risk premium and pushing investors to sell. Brent ...

TOKYO, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan can raise interest rates if prospects of durably meeting its 2% inflation target improve, but would struggle to justify doing so this year given weak signs ...

The woman likely to be Japan's next prime minister has suggested that she will be in charge when it comes to monetary policy, setting herself up for a battle with the markets and Japanese households ...

1550 ET – A 10-year Treasury auction has lukewarm reception and yields rise after a morning decline. A 30-year auction is on tap for tomorrow. Fed minutes sound a little more hawkish than some pundits ...