Category: FINANCE

Digital currencies are growing in popularity but, in terms of replacing physical money, that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. That’s according to Hiromi Yamaoka, head of the Bank of Japan’s payment and settlement systems department, who made those ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares of Oriental Land Co Ltd (:4661.T ... In a statement, Oriental Land said it has been planning a major development from its financial year beginning April 2021 and later but that nothing specific has been decided. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s retail sales fell short of expectations in October, after a weak GDP reading in the third quarter. Retail sales declined 0.2% year-over-year in October compared with expectations of 0.2% increase, per the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry ... ( read original story ...)

Saudi Aramco's CEO said in October that exchanges such as New York, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong have been looked at for a partial listing of the state company's planned $100 billion IPO. "It will become a great platform for the two major sovereigns to use ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The era of super-cheap money is ending, and stocks' remarkable run to new highs and bond yields' refusal to shoot higher suggest world markets are taking this seismic monetary policy shift in their stride. Yet while attention is ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Wednesday as banks and financial shares tracked their U.S. counterparts higher, shrugging off another North Korean missile launch. The Nikkei was up 0.4 percent at 22,576.86 points at the end ... ( read original story ...)

Central bankers say the success of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is just a bubble. But it keeps them awake at night, because these private currencies threaten their control of the banking system and money supply, that could undermine the monetary ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's biggest brokerage and investment bank said in a statement it would initially invest about 100 billion yen (670 million pounds) in the new business. It has yet to identify any specific investment targets. Nomura last made a fresh private equity ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan board member Goushi Kataoka said the central bank must expand stimulus further to achieve its price target early, so that prolonged monetary easing does not hurt the country's banking system, the Sankei newspaper reported on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

Japanese instant-noodle legend Nissin Foods Holdings – the maker of Cup Noodles and owner of big selling and well-known brands such as Demae Itcho – plans to spin off its China and Hong Kong business in an initial public offering (IPO) next month ... ( read original story ...)

Does the Japanese experience offer lessons for long-term investors? Or is Japan a freak case, an anomaly, an extreme crash that is the exception to the “buy and hold” rule? Certainly, the Japanese crash has been extreme. Typically, stocks recover after ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov. 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Consumer Goods Forum Creates First Japan Local Group Committed to Addressing Today's Regional Sustainability Challenges; Implementation of Sustainability Resolutions Key Priority The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF ... ( read original story ...)

Central bankers say the success of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is just a bubble. But it keeps them awake at night because these private currencies threaten their control of the banking system and money supply, which could undermine the monetary ... ( read original story ...)

China , Japan and South Korea account for a quarter of the world's output of goods and services. Their combined trade surplus is currently running at an annual rate of $400 billion. They can recycle that trade income to finance, with interest, most of ... ( read original story ...)

In many cases, Japanese companies with high profit gains also registered large sales increases. This helped the Nikkei average rise to a 26-year high. Sony reported a twentysevenfold year-on-year jump in net profit in the July-September period, the highest ... ( read original story ...)

is planning a $300-million IPO this year with a target to list in the first quarter of 2018. Vietnam wants Japanese and Osaka firms to expand their operations in the country, especially in farm produce processing and consumption, the support industry ... ( read original story ...)