TOKYO : Prospects of sustained wage gains in Japan and the boost to import costs from a weak yen have heightened attention within the central bank to rising inflationary pressures that may lead to ...
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The U.S. dollar began 2025 strong, continuing gains from 2024 with notable drops in the yen and euro. Expectations of higher U.S. interest rates bolstered dollar demand. Diverging interest rate ...
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Explaining the possible impact of the BOJ rate hike, which strengthened the yen against other currencies,Satish Chandra Aluri, Lemonn Markets Desk, said, “The overall sentiment among investors ...
The Japanese Yen holds ground as traders expect the BoJ to deliver an interest rate hike in January. Japan’s Jibun Bank Manufacturing PMI reached 49.6 in December, exceeding the expected 49.5 ...
TOKYO -- In the summer of 2024, global financial markets were rocked by the unwinding of yen carry trades, in which investors borrow the Japanese currency at low interest rates to buy assets in ...
Not only is there growing uncertainty about how to secure future budget hikes, Tokyo is also getting far less bang for its buck as inflation and the yen’s diminishing value erode Japan’s plans ...
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The government on Friday approved a record 115.54 trillion yen ($730 billion) draft initial budget for fiscal 2025, driven by rising social security and national defense spending, fueling concerns ...
Nidec said it would spend about 257 billion yen (S$2.2 billion) on the bid to take Makino private, but the target’s board had not agreed to the offer of 11,000 yen per share as Nidec had not proposed ...