Tag: finance

Osaka, who also earned a $3.8 million paycheck with Saturday’s victory, may in fact be in line for another financial windfall. The New York Post reported on Monday that Osaka is also working on ... ( read original story ...)

Japan landed two unmanned rovers on a 1-kilometer-wide asteroid Saturday, the first time robot rovers have successfully landed on an asteroid surface. “I felt awed by what we had achieved in ... ( read original story ...)

Investors who bet on a good year for financial shares in Asia have so far seen disappointment. After helping lead the region’s surge through January’s peak, spurring a clutch of positive recommendatio... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is mulling a bilateral trade agreement with the United States that would lower tariffs on U.S. agriculture imports in exchange for avoiding higher tariffs on Japanese autos, th... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- As newly bred Japanese strawberries and cherries that are sweeter and juicier than previous kinds hit the market, they are increasingly copied by farmers overseas, infringing on ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will soon restart trade talks with the U.S., this time more inclined to accept the Trump administration's preferred bilateral format for discussing tariffs, out of a belief that two ... ( read original story ...)

Writing for the Nikkei Asian Review, former Bank of Japan (BoJ) member Sayuri Shirai is warning that the central bank's massive stock and bond purchasing programs are beginning to run out of roadway, ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan will soon restart trade talks with the U.S., this time more inclined to accept the Trump administration's preferred bilateral format for discussing tariffs, out of a belief that two ... ( read original story ...)

Abe now has a shot at becoming Japan's longest-serving prime minister. He and his cabinet have received solid public support over the past six years. In an August Nikkei opinion poll, his cabinet ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s annual core consumer inflation ticked up slightly in August but remained distant from the central bank’s 2 percent target, suggesting that monetary policy will stay ultra-loo... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s 40-year yield climbed above 1 percent for the first time since January after the central bank lowered purchases of super-long maturity bonds, signaling that it is pressing ahead with stealth t... ( read original story ...)

Prices in Japan edged up modestly in August, according to government data on Friday, as the world's third-largest economy continues its years-long battle with deflation. Inflation stood at 0.9 percent ... ( read original story ...)

That still leaves inflation less than halfway to the target of 2 per cent set by the Bank of Japan. In April the central bank abandoned its pledge to hit that target “around fiscal 2019” in a belated ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese inflation data for August will be hitting the markets on Thursday at 2330 GMT. The figures are expected to confirm that the Bank of Japan remains far off from achieving its inflation target a... ( read original story ...)

Danske Bank is a mover in the Nordic region ... Since Bitcoin is pseudonymous and exchanges are mandated to ask for KYC, culprits would be nabbed. In Japan and UK, the crypto community are agitating f... ( read original story ...)

[L3N1W63RZ] After years of heavy money printing, the Bank of Japan has little ammunition left. Japan’s huge public debt and rising social welfare costs for a fast-ageing population also leave Abe with ... ( read original story ...)