Tag: nikkei

TOKYO -- Spending more on ingredients and increasingly scarce workers, nearly half of restaurant operators in Japan plan to raise prices this fiscal year, a Nikkei survey shows. The poll from mid-March to late April targeted 551 companies with food service ... ( read original story ...)

Japan’s Nikkei NIK, -0.18% closed down 0.2%, after hitting a 3½-month high in Monday trading. Miners, banks and insurance companies led the losses in Tokyo, with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. 8306, -0.24% and MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO: Japanese shares edged lower on Tuesday from 3.5-month highs the previous day, with financial shares leading declines as investors booked profits on signs of an apparent peak in U.S. bond yields. The Nikkei ended 0.2 per cent lower at 22,960.34. ( read original story ...)

Asian stocks slipped Wednesday after U.S. President Donald Trump's said he was "not satisfied" with the latest round of trade talks with China, with Japan leading losses in the region. In Tokyo, Nikkei 225 fell 1.29 percent amid the move higher in the yen. ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 23 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average fell to a 1-1/2-week low on Wednesday morning after U.S. President Donald Trump stoked uncertainty over the outcome of U.S.-China trade talks, while a stronger yen hurt exporters. The Nikkei tumbled ... ( read original story ...)

The banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s (MUFG), the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, is reportedly planning to trial its in-house cryptocurrency in 2019 following years of development. As Japan’s largest bank, MUFG could become the world ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Post Bank has been buying local stocks since February’s major correction in global share prices, its chief investment officer said on Tuesday, as the risk of a spike in the yen, which would hurt stock valuations, is seen as limited. ( read original story ...)

"The BOJ could have started stealth tapering. Or it could be just slowing down the pace after it bought too much in February and March," said Shingo Ide, a strategist at NLI Research Institute. Noriko Hayashi The question of when the Bank of Japan should ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 22 (Reuters) - Japan Post Bank has been buying Japanese stocks since a major correction in global share prices in February, starting “in-house” active management, Katsunori Sago, the bank’s chief investment officer said on Tuesday. ( read original story ...)

The Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has partnered with major U.S.-based cloud delivery platform Akamai Technologies to release a global payment network based on blockchain, Cointelegraph Japan reports today, May 21. Akamai, a Massachusetts-based firm ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan on Monday won approval from influential members of the government's leading advisory panel for its decision to abandon the time frame it had set for meeting its inflation target. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also expressed ... ( read original story ...)

a manager at Mie Bank in western Japan. It plans to start selling such trusts in July in partnership with Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the nation’s third-largest banking group. Banks began offering such trusts about a decade ago, and more than 150,000 ... ( read original story ...)

Pecuniary trusts (index-linked exchange-traded funds held as trust property) 5 19,657,773,241 Pecuniary trusts (Japan real estate investment trusts held as trust property) 6 473,442,530 ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average rose on Monday as the dollars’ rise against the yen supported some exporters after news of easing U.S.-China trade tensions, but weakness in financial stocks kept wider gains limited. The Nikkei ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, May 21 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei share average rose on Monday morning as exporters were boosted by a rise in the dollar rise against the yen. The dollar’s rise followed news of an easing in U.S.-China trade tensions, offsetting weakness in ... ( read original story ...)

Tokyo stocks opened higher on Monday supported by a cheaper ... The dollar firmed slightly after the finance ministry said Japan's overall trade surplus jumped 30 percent while its politically sensitive trade surplus with the US edged up 4.7 percent ... ( read original story ...)