China FAW Group is targeting Japan's passenger car market with electronic vehicles, Nikkei has learned, as the state-owned company gears up to sell its high-end electric SUV in the country from next ... ( read original story ...)
Japan stocks lower at close of trade; Nikkei 225 down 1.79%
Japan stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors led shares lower. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 1.79%. The best ... ( read original story ...)
Japanese shares end lower on rate hike worries, Omicron
The Nikkei share average lost 1.79 per cent to close at 28,545.68, after rising more than 2 per cent on Thursday. The index edged up 0.38 per cent for the week. ( read original story ...)
Japan’s Central Bank Shuns Tightening Trend, Citing Lack of Inflation
Japanese consumers have seen little of the price pressures hitting Americans, with overall consumer prices rising just 0.1% in October compared with the same month a year earlier. ( read original story ...)
Japan central bank scales back Covid funding support
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Friday announced its decision to scale back Covid-19 funding support for large companies while maintaining its monetary policy and support for small and midsize firms. The ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan not headed for normalization like US, Europe: Kuroda
The Bank of Japan is not headed toward policy normalization like the U.S. and European central banks as its 2 percent inflation targe ... ( read original story ...)
Osaka: 27 people feared dead after blaze at psychiatric clinic in Japan
At least 27 people were feared dead after a fire in a psychiatric clinic in Osaka, western Japan, with police reportedly investigating arson as a possible cause. The blaze started on the fourth floor ... ( read original story ...)
Editorial: Japan govt’s end to suit over bureaucrat’s suicide seen as attempt to hide truth
The Japanese government has made a turnaround and fully accepted a compensation claim filed by the widow of a bureaucrat who killed himself after bein ... ( read original story ...)
Payments start-up Checkout.com poaches Meta crypto exec to lead product strategy
Checkout.com, a $15 billion payments start-up based in Britain, has hired Meta executive Meron Colbeci as its chief product officer. ( read original story ...)
Tether’s CEO: from IT sales to calling the shots in crypto land
Jean-Louis van der Velde’s career offered few clues that he would become a key figure in fast-growing industry ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan to scale back pandemic-era economic support
Japan’s central bank kept its interest rates on hold on Friday as expected but announced it would start winding down its bond purchasing programme © Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters ... ( read original story ...)
Bank of Japan trims COVID-19 funding support, maintains easing policy
The Bank of Japan decided Friday to trim its COVID-19 funding support for large companies but will keep a scaled-back version to assi ... ( read original story ...)
BOJ Decides to Taper Corporate Debt Buying, Scale Back Pandemic-Relief Funding
The Bank of Japan on Friday decided to taper its corporate debt purchases to pre-pandemic levels and scale back some of its emergency funding scheme upon reaching the March 2022 deadline. As widely ... ( read original story ...)
SK networks signs an MOU with T-GAIA the largest mobile phone retailer in Japan on ICT business development.
SK networks, the headquarters and subsidiaries, has been engaged in ICT business including ICT device distribution, communications network operation and ICT idle asset management. The company is now ... ( read original story ...)
The Crypto Market Pullback Is Far From Over
Lower trading volumes and measures to control inflation add to signals that Bitcoin and other digital assets could be headed for a reckoning. ( read original story ...)
What You Missed in Crypto Today: Michael Jordan’s HEIR, Jerome Powell, Crypto Ad Ban
In the latest Crypto Minute, Ross Mac dived into Michael Jordan’s step into the crypto space, Fed chair Jerome Powell and a U.K. watchdog’s targeting of some crypto ads. ( read original story ...)