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LONDON: The era of super-cheap money is ending, and stocks’ remarkable run to new highs and bond yields’ refusal to shoot higher suggest world markets are taking this seismic monetary policy shift in their stride. Yet while attention is fixed on the US ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading Japanese hotelier Fujita Kanko Inc. announced its plan to open Hotel Gracery Namba in Osaka, Japan. Construction is expected to begin in January 2018, with an opening scheduled for summer 2019. Hotel Gracery ... ( read original story ...)

Japan has the largest digital token trading volume in the world ... are categorized as online vendors, thus not regulated by finance-related rules. Calls have been growing that investments in such tokens should be done within the rules of finance as ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japanese stocks rose on Wednesday as banks and financial shares tracked their US counterparts higher, shrugging off another North Korean missile launch. The Nikkei share average ended 0.5 per cent higher at 22,597.20, while the broader Topix ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s declining population could eventually pose a risk to its regional banks and financial system, Bank of Japan deputy governor Hiroshi Nakaso said in the last of three key speeches that may serve as his swan song after nearly four decades at the ... ( read original story ...)

(Reuters) - The era of super-cheap money is ending, and stocks’ remarkable run to new highs and bond yields’ refusal to shoot higher suggest world markets are taking this seismic monetary policy shift in their stride. Yet while attention is fixed on ... ( read original story ...)

Digital currencies are growing in popularity but, in terms of replacing physical money, that isn’t going to happen anytime soon. That’s according to Hiromi Yamaoka, head of the Bank of Japan’s payment and settlement systems department, who made those ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Shares of Oriental Land Co Ltd (:4661.T ... In a statement, Oriental Land said it has been planning a major development from its financial year beginning April 2021 and later but that nothing specific has been decided. ( read original story ...)

Japan’s retail sales fell short of expectations in October, after a weak GDP reading in the third quarter. Retail sales declined 0.2% year-over-year in October compared with expectations of 0.2% increase, per the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry ... ( read original story ...)

Saudi Aramco's CEO said in October that exchanges such as New York, London, Tokyo, and Hong Kong have been looked at for a partial listing of the state company's planned $100 billion IPO. "It will become a great platform for the two major sovereigns to use ... ( read original story ...)

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - The era of super-cheap money is ending, and stocks' remarkable run to new highs and bond yields' refusal to shoot higher suggest world markets are taking this seismic monetary policy shift in their stride. Yet while attention is ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Wednesday as banks and financial shares tracked their U.S. counterparts higher, shrugging off another North Korean missile launch. The Nikkei was up 0.4 percent at 22,576.86 points at the end ... ( read original story ...)

Central bankers say the success of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is just a bubble. But it keeps them awake at night, because these private currencies threaten their control of the banking system and money supply, that could undermine the monetary ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's biggest brokerage and investment bank said in a statement it would initially invest about 100 billion yen (670 million pounds) in the new business. It has yet to identify any specific investment targets. Nomura last made a fresh private equity ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan board member Goushi Kataoka said the central bank must expand stimulus further to achieve its price target early, so that prolonged monetary easing does not hurt the country's banking system, the Sankei newspaper reported on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

Japanese instant-noodle legend Nissin Foods Holdings – the maker of Cup Noodles and owner of big selling and well-known brands such as Demae Itcho – plans to spin off its China and Hong Kong business in an initial public offering (IPO) next month ... ( read original story ...)