Japan stocks were lower after the close on Monday, as losses in the Retail, Automobiles & Parts and Food sectors led shares lower. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 declined 1.14%. The best ...
It’s ‘sayonara deflation’ for Japan, strategist says
Jesper Koll, executive director at Monex Group, says Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda is "the man who beat Japan's deflation." ...
What is happening in Japan’s bond market?
Market forces have pushed Japanese government bond yields above policy targets. The moves are the biggest test in seven years of yield control in Japan, and dealers say the central bank's dominance of ...
Japan’s Nikkei dives 1% as BOJ capitulation bets push up yen
Japan's Nikkei share average slumped 1% on Monday, with exporters feeling the pressure from a stronger yen as investors bet the Bank of Japan could be forced to tweak stimulus settings again as soon ...
UPDATE 1-Japanese yields top policy cap for 2nd day, defying massive BOJ buying
Japan's 10-year government bond yield topped the Bank of Japan's policy ceiling for a second straight trading session on Monday, despite a new wave of emergency bond-buying operations by the central ...
Rallying Japanese Chip Startup Outshines Recent Big Global IPOs
A Japanese chip design firm’s share-price has almost doubled since the stock debuted in Tokyo last year, outperforming similarly sized or bigger initial public offerings globally amid bets on its ...
Bank of Japan’s yield curve control in danger as policy backfires
Unlike other central banks that have been aggressively raising rates to battle inflation, the BOJ continues its decades-long attempt to stoke price rises in the world's third-biggest economy, even as ...
Naomi Osaka Announced She Is Pregnant With Her First Child
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BoJ preparing to purchase more Japanese government bonds on Monday
The BOJ bought roughly 10 trillion yen ($78 billion) in JGBs over the past two days, with a 5 trillion yen purchase on Friday topping the high it had just set Thursday and is preparing to purchase ...
Nobody Wants To Buy The Ugly Crypto House
Normally a house like that, in a location like this, would sell for well over one million dollars, but this is no normal house. This is the CRYPTO HOUSE, and for very obvious reasons, nobody wants to ...
The latest jewel snatched from Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire
Miami was to have become the national capital of crypto-currency -- so much so that naming rights for its sports arena were sold to FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried's now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange. The ...
Republican Lawmakers Push Crypto Regulation with New House Subcommittee
The new Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion was announced Thursday by Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC), as other subcommittees for the House Financial Services ...
TV Announcer Turned Portfolio Manager Beats 97% of Japan Peers
Landing a job as an announcer in a major Japanese TV station is a rare feat in itself. Maiko Uda did that in 1997, only to quit in about five years as she found her true calling: finance. Today, she ...
Seven Factors Bitcoin Investors Should Watch In 2023
Convicted Bitcoin Investors. We can put investor conviction into perspective by looking at the number of unique Bitcoin addresses holding at least 0.01, 0.1 and 1 bitcoin. This da ...
THE CRYPTO CULLING: Thousands of employees are getting the axe as companies face plunging valuations, scandals, and legal turmoil
Several major crypto companies announced layoffs in 2023, while others are facing charges from the SEC as crypto winter shows no signs of thawing yet.
Op-Ed: Crypto is under fire, but is this really the end for its Wild West?
Crypto’s time of unregulated business fueled by effusive venture capital and fraudsters may be waning, but that doesn't mean the currency is going anywhere.