TOKYO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Japan's 10-year government bonds were untraded on Monday ... Yields on super-long dated notes fell after a firm out come of the Ministry of Finance's liquidity-enhancing ...
Naomi Osaka and Cordae Are Expecting First Child Together
In a post shared on Instagram, tennis star Naomi Osaka announced that she’s pregnant with her first child. “Can’t wait to get back on the court but here’s a little life update for 2023 ...
Dude, where’s my bitcoin? Crypto sits out the Super Bowl after a miserable year
LeBron James did a promo for the Crypto.com trading platform. Coinbase, another crypto exchange, spent $14 million on a QR code gimmick. And who could forget that Larry David ad suggesting that crypto ...
Japan’s Nikkei hits over 2-week low on tech declines
Japan's Nikkei share average touched a more than two-week low on Monday, as heavyweight technology stocks tracked a weak performance of the Nasdaq in the previous session, while stocks with dim ...
Japan’s next central bank chief may rue promotion
HONG KONG, Feb 13 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Haruhiko Kuroda, who is due to depart the Bank of Japan (8301.T) in April after a decade in charge, will leave a host of problems for his successor to solve ...
Inflation in Japan is ‘very close’ to peaking, says strategist
Marc Chandler of Bannockburn Global Forex says the market expects inflation in Japan to fall back below 2% later in the year.
Banning Crypto Staking Will Not Protect Investors
Cryptoassets and crypto exchanges have had a rough year or so, and the pace of enforcement actions only looks set to increase, even with some commissioners offering dissenting – and well reasoned – ...
Japan Says Sayonara to Idea of Central Banker as Rescue Hero
As Haruhiko Kuroda hands over the reins at the Bank of Japan, expectations that his successor can fix the economy are limited.
‘Dark horse’ Kazuo Ueda upends expectations for next Bank of Japan governor
If the Diet approves Ueda’s nomination as expected, it would be the first time in postwar Japan that an academic is appointed central bank chief, a role that had historically rotated between officials ...
Japan’s Nikkei ends at one-month high after BOJ stands pat
TOKYO, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average jumped on Wednesday to its highest close in a month after the Bank of Japan maintained its ultra-easy policy, with technology heavyweights ...
What investors need to know about ‘staking,’ the passive income opportunity at the center of crypto’s latest regulation scare
What investors need to know about ‘staking,’ the passive income opportunity at the center of crypto’s latest regulation scare.
The 7-year curse: If you’re thinking of investing in certain Super Bowl advertisers, be forewarned
CHUCK JAFFE Want a sure-thing wager on the Super Bowl? Boy, do I have a proposition for you. I am not talking about one of the wild prop bets on this year’s game, where you can wager from ...
‘High-ranking Japan exec interested in Maharlika’
A high-ranking official of one of Japan’s leading financial institutions has expressed strong interest in the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund and its potential to help the Philippine power sector, ...
Japan Set to Tap Kazuo Ueda, Backer of Zero Rates, as Central Bank Head
The scholar, an advocate of aggressive monetary policy, said he wanted to continue the low-rate stance of Bank of Japan’s current governor.
Senior Japanese finance exec ‘strongly interested’ in Maharlika fund —Speaker Romualdez
A high-ranking Japanese financial executive has expressed “strong interest” in the proposed Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), Speaker Martin Romualdez said Friday. “It was during our conversation that ...
VOX POPULI: Abe’s words in new book make a mockery of state land sale scandal
Nobuhisa Sagawa, who at the time headed the Finance Ministry’s Financial Bureau in charge of managing state properties, has maintained complete silence. Yesterday, I visited Toyonaka in Osaka ...