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Global investors are unwinding their wagers on Japan's yen rising quickly as a cautious central bank, a trade war and the ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Confidence among large Japanese manufacturers improved in the three months to June, a central bank survey ...
US President Donald Trump cast doubt on reaching a trade deal with Japan, a day after threatening higher tariffs on Japanese ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's tax revenues likely hit a record high for a fifth straight year in the fiscal period that ended in March due to robust corporate profits and rising inflation, two sources said ...
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) has added to its holdings in Japan’s five biggest trading houses, likely underpinning strong momentum propelling the nation’s ...
The Japanese stock market is up nearly 30 percent this year, far ahead of the S&P 500, ... Investors Are Putting Big Money Into Japan Again. Here’s Why.
Japan's predicament changed our understanding of what can go wrong in a modern economy. ... Planet Money Last month, Japan's central bank raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years.
Regarding John Greenwood and Steve Hanke’s op-ed “How Japan Kept Inflation Rates Low” (Jan. 10): Money supply might just as well be called money demand. Unless companies and households want ...
Paper money is losing its appeal, but the country continues to lag in the global shift to cashless payments. One surprising ...
But the Bank of Japan has short-circuited such reflationary pressure by not allowing its dollar buying to push up the Japanese money supply. This is called sterilized currency intervention.