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This remains a puffer’s paradise, in part, because the Finance Ministry owns one-third of Japan Tobacco ... Abe is deflecting them on alleged cronyism from Osaka to Okayama. The gulf in political courage fits a pattern. Koike isn’t just looking ... ( read original story ...)

NEW YORK – U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t the only leader with a big economic hire to make. His Mar-a-Lago golf partner, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has to decide whether to reappoint Haruhiko Kuroda as governor of the Bank of Japan. Kuroda’s term ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission or CFTC issued an Order filing and settling charges against The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. or BTMU for engaging in multiple acts of spoofing in a variety of futures contracts on the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan posted a current account surplus of 934.6 billion yen in June, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday. That beat forecasts for a surplus of 860.5 billion yen following the 1,653.9 billion yen surplus in May. The trade balance showed a surplus of 518 ... ( read original story ...)

Japan logged a current account surplus in the month of June alone marking the 36th successive month of black ink, the finance ministry said in its preliminary report. According to the ministry, the current account surplus in the recording month stood at ... ( read original story ...)

EPA/FRANCK ROBICHON Japan achieved a current account surplus of 934.6 billion ... according to data published by the Ministry of Finance. ( read original story ...)

Japan posted a current account surplus of 934.6 billion yen in June, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday, following the 1,653.9 billion yen surplus in May. The trade balance showed a surplus of 518.5 billion yen following the 115.1 billion yen deficit ... ( read original story ...)

Japan achieved a current account surplus of 934.6 billion yen ... according to data published on Tuesday by the Ministry of Finance. The Japanese trade balance hit a surplus of 518.5 billion yen, down 32 per cent from June 2016 but up from a deficit ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Display Inc is considering seeking funds from an outside investor to help finance an overhaul of its ailing smartphone screen-making business, including 3,500 job cuts, the Nikkei business daily reported on Tuesday. The liquid ... ( read original story ...)

Overall bank lending in Japan was up 3.3 percent on year, the Bank of Japan said on Tuesday - coming in at 516.253 trillion yen. That was in line with expectations and unchanged from the June reading. Excluding trusts, bank lending advanced an annual 3.4 ... ( read original story ...)

In addition, Japan’s domestic economic policy aside, the global economy is in good shape, with solid growth. We think these arguments are too optimistic. The Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) four years of extraordinary monetary easing have no doubt had positive ... ( read original story ...)

Law360, New York (August 7, 2017, 6:32 PM EDT) -- A Japanese bank that found one of its traders used phony trade orders to manipulate prices for eurodollar and U.S. Treasury notes and came clean with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission about the ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's current account surplus is one of the the broadest measure of its trade with the rest of the world. The data is keenly eyed by the Bank of Japan and the Finance Ministry ahead of new potential policy changes or monetary easing or tapering measures. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s economy has shown improvement ... At its recent policy meeting, the BoJ again extended its time-frame for reaching its inflation target of 2%. The bank is reluctant to scale back its asset-purchase program, which means that it will likely ... ( read original story ...)

"Looking to the Fed futures market, there's less than a 50 percent chance of one more rate hike this year," said Bill Northey, chief investment officer at U.S. Bank Private Client ... Against its Japanese counterpart, the dollar edged up to 110.78 yen. ( read original story ...)

While most yen bears have cut back expectations of a Trump reflation trade, others are betting policy divergence between the Bank of Japan and its global peers will increase pressure on the currency. Goldman Sachs Asset Management has added to wagers for ... ( read original story ...)