Tokyo stocks open lower extending US rout

Tokyo stocks opened sharply lower Thursday, extending a rout on Wall Street following US inflation data that fuelled worries about a sudden shift in monetary policy.The benchmark Nikkei 225 index ... ( read original story ...)

Japan March current account surplus 2.7 trln yen

Japan's current account surplus stood at 2.65 trillion yen ($24.16 billion) in March, Ministry of Finance data showed on Thursday. That compared with economists' median forecast for a surplus of 2.8 ... ( read original story ...)