Tag: banking

Japan's core inflation picked up slightly this year, but still remains well below the Bank of Japan's ambitious 2% target. Data released Friday showed a 0.8% increase in the country's core consumer ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s core inflation picked up slightly in March from a year earlier, but remained distant from the Bank of Japan’s ambitious 2 percent target in a sign of rising pressure on the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: A Japanese agricultural bank’s US$61bil spending spree on bundled leveraged loans abroad has begun to attract the attention of the nation’s politicians. Government officials answered questions ... ( read original story ...)

IBM Cloud Migration Factory will help Fukui migrate critical technology more quickly and efficiently ARMONK, N.Y., April 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM Services (NYSE: IBM) announced an agreement ... ( read original story ...)

Usually miserable. We used a common adage on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Blunt. To the point. "Short weeks are always long." On the Monday of a four day week, this was a warning. ( read original story ...)

Japanese officials have said Tokyo would not accept auto export restrictions if the U.S. makes such demands. Japan's Nikkei retreated from a 4-1/2-month high on Thursday as defensive stocks fell and ... ( read original story ...)

Meanwhile, Japan will roll out the red carpet for Trump ... Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He has spent seven years in China as a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, April 18 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei retreated from a 4-1/2-month high on Thursday as defensive stocks fell and Canon tumbled on a report that it will cut its earnings forecast. The Nikkei share ... ( read original story ...)

A Japanese agricultural bank’s $61 billion spending spree on bundled leveraged loans abroad has begun to attract the attention of the nation’s politicians. Government officials answered questions from ... ( read original story ...)

... redistributing market share away from its strongest ally," U.S. Ambassador to Japan William Hagerty told Nikkei on Wednesday. "We seek terms of trade no less favorable than Japan's other ... ( read original story ...)

Facebook and Amazon.com will face stricter rules on handling personal information in Japan, which looks to use antitrust law to stop unfair trade-offs between privacy and free services, Nikkei has ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei rose to a 4-1/2-month high on Wednesday as automakers soared on hopes of progress in Japan-U.S. trade talks, while companies with large exposure to China ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, April 18 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei retreated from a 4-1/2-month high on Thursday as investors took profits, while Canon tumbled on a report that it will cut its earnings forecast, pressuring ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's big three telcos have been under government pressure to reduce carrier fees to help stimulate consumer spending in other parts of the economy. "The ongoing rally in the Nikkei is not ... ( read original story ...)

The Markit/Nikkei Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to a seasonally adjusted 49.5 in April from a final 49.2 in March but remained below the 50 threshold that separates ... ( read original story ...)

Rakuten's shares jumped 10% on Wednesday as investors looked forward to Pinterest's public debut, cheered registrations for its new cryptocurrency exchange, and celebrated an analyst upgrade. ( read original story ...)