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Japan’s Nikkei stock average reached its highest intraday level since last December on Friday. Asian shares steadied on Friday, tracking U.S. gains, with financials leading Japan’s stock market to a fresh high for the year. Japan’s Nikkei Stock ... ( read original story ...)

DUBAI Dec 13 Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ has received a licence to open a branch in Saudi Arabia, becoming the first Japanese bank to establish a presence in the kingdom. The bank, part of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has played a central role in the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan may emerge from its lost decades next year, according to Bank of America Corp. The world’s third-largest economy has a tight job market, easy fiscal policy, and a new monetary program to control domestic borrowing costs and stoke inflation, which ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO The Bank of Japan is expected to hold its negative interest rates and 10-year government bond yield target steady next week as a weaker yen and positive overseas conditions augur well for Japan's economic prospects, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. ( read original story ...)

If the BOJ lifts the yield target, it will be seen as tightening, said Izuru Kato, chief economist at Totan Research. "It would be hard to explain why you're doing this before inflation hits 2 per cent." Eugene Hoshiko Interest rate hikes are back on the ... ( read original story ...)

Donald Trump's election night victory has sent shockwaves through bond markets around the world. Selling in the US, brought on by the presumption that Trump's protectionist trade policies and plans for massive infrastructure spending will bring back ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Interest rate hikes are back on the radar at the Bank of Japan, for the first time in a decade, as the U.S. Federal Reserve's tightening cycle pushes global bond yields higher, heralding a new era for central banks retreating from post ... ( read original story ...)

Interest rates are going up in the US, but in the UK they are going nowhere. That, bluntly, was the message from the Bank of England as it announced its latest decision on borrowing costs less than 24 hours after the US Federal Reserve not only tightened ... ( read original story ...)

Discussions of project details are now in the final stages. Among the projects is the joint provision of around 1 billion euros ($1.04 billion) in loans by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and a financial institution in Europe for ... ( read original story ...)

WASHINGTON — Japan surpassed China in October as the largest foreign owner of U.S. Treasury securities, the first time the countries have swapped places in nearly two years. Total foreign holdings fell for a fourth month. The Treasury Department says ... ( read original story ...)