Japan stands ready to take "decisive" steps in the foreign exchange market if excessive yen moves persist, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Monday, in a new warning against investors selling ...
Roundup: Japan’s Nikkei ends higher on bargain-hunting, chipmakers rally
Japan's benchmark Nikkei stock index closed higher Monday as investors sought out bargains early on, with chipmakers and energy issues among the day's notable gainers. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock ...
After tough September, Nikkei rebounds on boost from chip, energy shares
TOKYO: Japan’s Nikkei share average rose sharply on Monday, starting October on a solid footing as chip-related stocks rallied and energy shares tracked gains in crude oil prices. The market’s mood ...
Crypto inflows defy crash in fund values
In the eyes of many, cryptocurrencies defy convention merely by existing, backed as they are by nothing more substantive than lines of computer code. But, despite a crash in their value in recent ...
Japan: After tough September, Nikkei rebounds on boost from chip, energy shares
The market's mood was also buoyed by Japan Inc's plans to boost capex this fiscal year in a quarterly Bank of Japan survey of corporate sentiment ...
Japan to respond ‘resolutely’ to speculative yen moves: finance chief
Japan is ready to respond "resolutely" to volatile yen movements after its recent currency intervention "served as a warning" to speculators behind the currency's rapid depreciation, Finance Minister ...
Nikkei rises on boost from chip and energy shares
Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Monday, recovering from early losses as chip-related stocks rallied and energy shares tracked gains in crude oil prices. The market's mood was also buoyed by Japan ...
Japan’s Finance Minister Says Ready to Take ‘Decisive’ Steps on Yen
Japan's Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki stands up from a table as he finishes his news conference after Japan intervened in the currency market for the first time since 1998 to shore up the battered ...
Japan finance minister Suzuki says sharp FX moves are undesirable
Japan finance minister Suzuki statements crossing the wires. USD/JPY is not too far from 1450 again so Japanese authorities are trotting out the verbal intervention attempts. Suzuki begins with this ...
Low-inflation Japan a relative oasis in a troubled world
As global recession fears intensify, Japan’s stagnant economy increasingly looks like a haven from the world’s inflation woes.
Japan’s yen intervention will bring no relief amid dollar’s strength
The Japanese government intervened in foreign-exchange markets for the first time in over two decades in an attempt to stabilize the yen. However, with the Japanese central bank diverging from its ...
Pro-Russian groups are raising funds in crypto to prop up military operations and evade U.S. sanctions
However, experts said that there is not enough liquidity in the crypto system on the scale Russia would require to move money. But with the paramilitary groups, they're moving money on a smaller scale ...
Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius Founder, Alex Mashinsky, Withdrew $10M Weeks Before Company Froze Customer Accounts: Report
Alex Mashinsky, the embattled founder and former CEO of Celsius Network, removed $10 million from the now bankrupt crypto lender weeks before Celsius halted customer withdrawals in June, the Financial ...
‘Crypto paradise’ Singapore stung by high-profile collapses
The international manhunt for Do Kwon, co-founder of collapsed crypto operator Terraform Labs, has put the spotlight on Singapore as the crypto hub’s reputation takes a hit following the failure of ...
Bank of Japan board debated risk of overshoot in inflation, September meeting summary shows
TOKYO, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Some Bank of Japan policymakers said inflation may overshoot initial expectations, with one member saying it was important to communicate an exit strategy from ultra-easy ...
Japan’s Business Mood Worsens in Q3 – BOJ Tankan
Service-sector sentiment brightened a tad from three months ago, the Bank of Japan's "tankan" survey showed, although retailers were less optimistic due to the rising cost of living blamed on higher ...