TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The government and the Bank of Japan will closely monitor market developments and economic conditions both at home and abroad, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said Monday, after share prices plummeted and the yen surged against the U.S ...
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index soars more than 10% after plunging a day earlier
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 share index soared as much as 10.5% early Tuesday, a day after it plunged a near record 12.4%. The index was up 3,252.22 at 34,744.97 about an hour after ...
Japan’s Stock Futures Point to Stronger Open in Wake of Rout
Japanese stocks may open higher on Tuesday in the wake of a market meltdown that took benchmark gauges to their steepest single-day drop since 1987. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Real Wages Rise First Time in 27 Months in June
Japanese workers’ real wages rose for the first time in more than two years, brightening the prospects for a recovery in consumption and the emergence of a positive growth cycle long sought by the ... ( read original story ...)
Japan June household spending falls 1.4% year on year
Consumer spending contracted 1.4% in June from a year earlier, worse than the median market forecast for a 0.9% decline. On a seasonally adjusted, month-on-month basis, spending increased 0.1% versus ... ( read original story ...)
Resurgent yen brings high-flying Japan Inc back to earth
TOKYO :A resurgent yen helped bring Japanese stocks crashing back to earth on Monday, leaving investors scrambling to gauge the potentially diminished outlook for earnings, and snuffing out a months-long dramatic run by the Tokyo market. In just three ... ( read original story ...)
What Analysts Say About Triggers of Japan’s Stocks Rout
Forced margin selling among retail investors was seen as exacerbating the rout, while UBS Securities cut its index targets for Japan. Here is what analysts are saying about who is offloading shares and why, and where the market may be headed from here: Rina Oshimo, a senior strategist at Okasan Securities Co. ( read original ...
Japan’s 10-Year Government Yield Tumbles as Global Bonds Rally
Japan’s benchmark 10-year bond yield fell to its lowest since April as the global bond rally accelerated following poor economic data in the US that’s spurred traders to bet big on the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy easing. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index sinks 12.4% as investors dump a wide range of shares
Japan's Nikkei 225 share index has plunged nearly 13% as investors worried that the U.S. economy may be in worse shape than had been expected dumped a wide range of shares
Japan government is cooperating with BoJ, FSA to monitor stock markets, says finance minister Shun’ichi Suzuki
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki addressed the media after Monday's session saw a 12.4% decline in Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index, continuing sell-offs that are trembling global markets as investors become increasingly concerned about the US economy.
Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index tumbles more than 12% as world markets are jolted by weak US jobs reports
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 stock index tumbles more than 12% as world markets are jolted by weak US jobs reports.
Japan’s Nikkei Posts Biggest One-Day Fall Since 1987; Yen Rallies
Japan’s Nikkei Stock Average closed down 12.4% on Monday, a historic fall triggered by disappointing U.S. jobs data and a further rise in the yen. It was the biggest single-day percentage drop in the Nikkei since it fell 14.9% on Oct. 20, 1987 after the ...
Dow drops 864 points, and Japanese stocks suffer worst crash since 1987 amid US economy worries
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was reeling by 864 points, or 2.2 percent, as of 1:25 p.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite slid 2.8 percent.
Japanese Bank Stocks Suffer Worst One-Day Drop Ever
A punishing rotation out of Japan thrashed shares of the country’s banks Monday, sending the Topix Banks index tumbling 17%. The fall marked the largest one-day drop for the index ever, according to ...
Israel’s ambassador to Japan criticizes Nagasaki’s peace ceremony invitation snub
Israel’s envoy to Japan has hit out at authorities in Nagasaki after they declined to invite him to a peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 atomic bombing of the city, accusing the local mayor of “inventing” security fears. ( read original story ...)
Dow drops 1,000 points, and Japanese stocks suffer worst crash since 1987 on US economy worries
Japan’s Nikkei 225 helped start Monday by plunging 12.4% ... to pivot from his current focus on higher prices to outlining ways to revive the economy. AP Business Writers Elaine Kurtenbach, Matt Ott and Christopher Rugaber contributed. ( read original story ...)