Excluding fresh food and energy, Tokyo’s consumer price index rose 2.3% in April — slightly above the central bank’s inflation target of around 2%. Inflation in Tokyo is a leading indicator of the ...
Japan’s Nikkei hits 8-month high after BOJ keeps stimulus
TOKYO: Japan’s Nikkei share average rose to an eight-month high on Friday after the Bank of Japan left its ultra-easy monetary policy settings unchanged, adding to the boost from a series of strong ...
Japan’s Nikkei extends gains after BOJ keeps stimulus; banks crushed
Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Friday after the Bank of Japan left its ultra-easy monetary policy settings unchanged, adding to the boost from a series of strong domestic earnings and solid ...
Kazuo Ueda embarks on Bank of Japan policy review in first meeting as governor
Kazuo Ueda played it safe in his first board meeting as Bank of Japan governor, announcing a comprehensive policy review but holding off from changing the Japanese central bank’s ultra-loose monetary ...
Japan’s new central bank governor sticks to negative rates while announcing policy review
Economists polled by Reuters widely expected the central bank to maintain its negative interest rates at -0.1% and to make no changes to its yield curve control scheme. The Bank of Japan left its ...
Japan’s Nikkei climbs on strong domestic earnings; BOJ looms
Japan's Nikkei share average rose on Friday, powered by a series of strong domestic earnings reports, with a weaker yen and solid gains on Wall Street also lifting the overall mood.
Bank of Japan chief will probably ‘play it safe’ at his first policy meeting, economist says
Shigeto Nagai of Oxford Economics says he expects Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda to stress that the central bank will maintain its easy monetary policy for the near term.
Here’s how crypto winter influenced sentiment at one of the industry’s biggest conferences
Crypto World's Talia Kaplan explores how falling digital asset prices and several high-profile bankruptcies have changed sentiment at one of crypto's biggest conferences in the U.S.
Ex-SPAC CFO Gets 3 Years in Scheme to Trade Meme Stocks, Crypto
The former chief financial officer for a group of special purpose acquisition companies was sentenced to three years in prison for a scheme to embezzle more than $5 million to trade in crypto assets ...
Asia markets to rise as Wall Street rallies; investors look ahead to Bank of Japan policy meeting
Asia-Pacific markets are set to rise on Friday after Wall Street logged one of its best days in the year, powered by earnings from Big Tech companies. Investors in Asia will be closely watching as the ...
Tokyo Inflation Speeds Up, Focusing Attention on BOJ Price View
Inflation in Tokyo accelerated again after two months of slowing down, a result that will likely intensify market attention on the central bank’s price outlook to be released after Governor Kazuo Ueda ...
Ray Dalio says he has a little bitcoin but prefers gold, calling it ‘timeless and universal’
Bitcoin moves unreliably and has a smaller valuation than mega-cap stocks like Microsoft, Dalio said on a podcast.
The Case for Regulating, Not Banning, Crypto
Blockchain Association CEO Kristin Smith looks at the logical flaws and assuptions made in a recent Foreign Affairs article calling to ban crypto.
Coinbase Armed for Legal Clash Over How Crypto Is Regulated
The biggest U.S. exchange said it would fight the SEC’s claim that much of its business is illegal and try to convince a court that Wall Street regulators lack the authority to oversee cryptocurrency ...
SEC’s Gensler says ‘the law is clear’ for crypto exchanges and that they must comply with regulators
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler wrote in a post on Thursday that crypto exchanges "must come into compliance, register with us, and deal with conflicts of interest." ...
Arm CEO Rene Haas is in line to join SoftBank’s board ahead of his company’s big IPO
Arm is expected to go public later this year in what could be the biggest IPO in history by a semiconductor company.