The Bank of Japan is having a normal one

Japan needed more consumers and investors to spend more of their money to stimulate the economy. The Bank of Japan set interest rates at negative levels, effectively charging banks to deposit and ...

The Week in Numbers: hiking in Japan

From a landmark rate hike in Japan, to a hotly anticipated IPO for Reddit, we round up the big stories in business and finance over the week to March 22. Ilan Rubens reports. Manhattan D.A. tells ...

Nikkei 225 sets another all-time high

Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average marked an all-time high on Friday for the second-straight session, partly on a weaker yen. This came after all three major indexes in New York closed at record ...