By Leika Kihara and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan may take monetary policy action if yen falls affect prices significantly, governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday, offering the strongest hint to date the currency’s relentless declines could …
By Takaya Yamaguchi, Tetsushi Kajimoto and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss TOKYO/NEW YORK (Reuters) -The yen surged against the dollar in early Asian hours on Thursday on what traders suspected was another round of intervention by Japanese authorities to stop a sharp slide …
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets. Asian stocks should open on Monday buoyed by Friday’s tech-led surge on Wall Street, while investors will be scrambling to make sense of the latest twist …
“I forgot to talk about the sheep living at the studio,” Eli Russell Linnetz texts me a minute after our FaceTime ends. The Californian designer shares a picture of his fluffy friends as they mill about outside the wave-like space …
(Reuters) – Just when it looked like rate cuts were coming any minute now, inflation has reared its head and the strength of the dollar is forcing other central bankers to protect their currencies and reconsider their policy choices. What …
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Stocks and the euro were steady ahead of an European Central Bank meeting on Thursday, after stubborn U.S. inflation numbers triggered the biggest global market selloff in months and left Japan’s yen at a …
Ilia Malinin, the Virginia teenager whose once-unimaginable array of quadruple jumps has enthralled the figure skating world over the past two years, completed his meteoric rise to the top of the sport on Saturday night by winning his first world …
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Visitors and electronic screens displaying Japan’s Nikkei stock quotation board are reflected on window glasses as the share average surged past an all-time record high scaled in December 1989, inside a building in Tokyo, Japan February …
© Reuters. People run with Tokyo’s business district in the background, in Tokyo, Japan, April 7, 2021. Picture taken April 7, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File photo By Makiko Yamazaki, Scott Murdoch and Kane Wu TOKYO/SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Japan Inc’s pursuit of …
A dysfunctional US Congress finally got its act together and approved a $7bn funding package for three Pacific nations. After years of negotiations and more recently, months of delay by US lawmakers, Congress late Friday cleared the way for the …
