Tag: nikkei

TOKYO -- Momentum is growing for Japan and Russia to put aside their decades-old territorial dispute, as the two countries seek to strengthen strategic cooperation partly to counter the growing ... ( read original story ...)

An Icelandic farm and fishery official told Nikkei that the country understands Japan's long-standing frustrations with the IWC, but that Iceland does not plan to withdraw from the organization at ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s top finance ministry bureaucrat said on Friday that domestic financial institutions were facing severe strain as long-term interest rates remained low due to the Bank ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Underwriters for the IPO of SoftBank's mobile business on Wednesday ... so I sold my holdings at a loss on Wednesday afternoon," said one Osaka-based investor. Tomoichiro Kubota, senior ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's top Coca-Cola distributor plans to ... 1.5-liter bottles for 138 yen on average in October, according to Nikkei point-of-sale data. If stores fully reflect the suggested increases ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's SoftBank Corp began trading Wednesday in Tokyo in Japan's biggest-ever IPO and one of the largest the world has seen. Shares open down 6.40 percent at 1,404.00 yen on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, ... ( read original story ...)

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda warned of heightening risks to the economic outlook and signalled the central bank’s readiness to ramp up stimulus if needed, brushing aside concerns it lacks po... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Taku Takeuchi falls during an event in Poland. Japan’s Nikkei was down more than 2% Thursday. Asian stock markets sank Thursday after the Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates and Wall St... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Japan’s Nikkei slipped to a fresh nine-month low on Thursday, weighed by a slide in U.S. shares, after the Federal Reserve disappointed some investors by not sounding as dovi... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan maintained its ultra-loose monetary policy on Thursday and reaffirmed its view the economy is on a solid footing, even as fears of slowing global growth jolt market... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan is expected to leave rates unchanged on Thursday as risks from trade protectionism, cheaper oil and a higher sales tax cast a shadow over the outlook for the nation’s economy and the ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's Financial Services Agency has decided to approve Coincheck's cryptocurrency exchange license, Nikkei has learned. An announcement will come by the end of the year, closing a ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Japan's corporate leaders have grown increasingly ... the two powers began imposing tit-for-tat tariffs in July, a Nikkei survey showed Wednesday. The quarterly survey of over 100 ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan is expected to leave rates unchanged on Thursday as risks from trade protectionism, cheaper oil and a higher sales tax cast a shadow over the outlook for the nation’s economy and the ... ( read original story ...)

Such a debut is uncommon in the Japanese IPO market. Of 82 IPOs so far this year, SoftBank Corp’s $23.5 billion float was only the seventh to open below the offering price. Among recent major IPOs, Ja... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Supplies of uranium, used to fire nuclear power plants, are becoming increasingly plentiful globally, threatening to make redundant Japan's long-standing policy of recycling spent nuclear ... ( read original story ...)