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Japan stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Warehousing, Chemical, Petroleum & Plastic and Transport sectors led shares higher. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 gained 1. ( read original story ...)

War, Covid-19 and an aggressive-looking Federal Reserve are conspiring against the Bank of Japan’s ultra-loose monetary stance. The yen has plummeted and the central bank is struggling to keep control ... ( read original story ...)

While oil prices have slipped from the highs seen earlier from Russia’s war in Ukraine, the sharp weakening in the yen is likely to keep upward pressure on imported fuel costs. ( read original story ...)

Vice finance minister for international affairs ... Aside from such verbal intervention, Japan has several options to stem excessive yen falls. Among them is to directly intervene in the currency ... ( read original story ...)

Japan and the United States agreed to closely communicate on currency issues, Japan’s top currency diplomat said on Tuesday in the wake of the yen’s decline to six-year lows against the dollar. “We ... ( read original story ...)

Greenpeace and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen are launching a “Change the Code, Not the Climate” campaign, designed to pressure the Bitcoin community to alter the way it orde ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan board members expected inflation in Japan will accelerate toward the bank's 2 percent target due to higher energy price ... ( read original story ...)

Japan will carefully watch foreign exchange market moves to avoid "bad yen weakening", Minister of Finance Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday, as Tokyo tries to navigate the economic impact of the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Finance Minister Shun'ichi Suzuki said that they will tap emergency budget reserves first to fund measures to counter rising oil prices and they are closely watching market moves to avoid ... ( read original story ...)

The looming shift in Ethereum from proof of work to proof of stake will have a noticeable impact on the broader crypto market. ( read original story ...)

The yen fell as much as 2.5% to 125.09 against the greenback on Monday, the weakest since August 2015, before paring back some losses to trade near 123.85. The BOJ offered for the first time to buy an ... ( read original story ...)

Did you catch the cryptocurrency ad that aired during the Oscars on Sunday night? You may have forgotten about it as the commercial aired in a world before the slap, so allow me to jog your memory. ( read original story ...)

Twitter is adding muscle to its ongoing crypto talent war, as it looks to hire several blockchain experts across the U.S. and internationally. ( read original story ...)

The Japanese yen plunged against the US dollar on Monday as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) continued to ease monetary policy aggressively, diverging further from the Federal Reserve’s increasingly hawkish ... ( read original story ...)

Mizuho Financial Group Inc.’s exposure to Russia is about $2.87 billion, and the bank will record reserves for possible losses “as appropriate” for uncertainties stemming from the war in Ukraine. ( read original story ...)

Last week, a new poll from Quinnipiac University showed that Americans below 50 are increasingly "bullish" about cryptocurrencies, with the majority of Americans — 43% — belie ... ( read original story ...)