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globe investor
Unwinding of hugely popular currency trade rocks markets
A board displays the exchange rates of the Mexican peso against the U.S. dollar outside a foreign exchange house, in Mexico City, Mexico, June 3.
international business
Honda to ramp up R&D spending as it expands hybrid push
FILE - The logo of the Honda Motor Co. is seen in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Dec. 15, 2021. A U.S. government investigation into unexpected automatic braking involving nearly 3 million Hondas is a step closer to a recall, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Wednesday, April 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)
international business
Japan’s Nippon Steel sticking to plan to close U.S. Steel deal by year-end
FILE PHOTO: Nippon Steel logo is displayed at the company's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan April 1, 2024. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
international business
Nissan upbeat on annual profit despite continuing challenges from inflation, competition
The logo of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor is seen at the company's head office in Yokohama on May 9, 2024. (Photo by Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) (Photo by YUICHI YAMAZAKI/AFP via Getty Images)
international business
Toyota says looming investment to weigh on profit after blockbuster fourth quarter
FILE PHOTO: A Toyota logo is seen during the New York International Auto Show, in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., April 5, 2023. REUTERS/David 'Dee' Delgado/File Photo
asia-pacific business
Japan may have spent US$23.59-billion in latest attempt to prop up yen: central bank data
A woman walks in front of an electronic boarddisplaying the exchange rate for the Japanese yen against the US dollar in Tokyo on May 2, 2024. (Photo by Kazuhiro NOGI / AFP) (Photo by KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images)
globe investor
A strong U.S. dollar weighs on the world
A currency exchange broker prepares a transaction at a brokerage in the capital Khartoum on January 21, 2020.
international business
Japan’s yen surges against U.S. dollar on suspected intervention
FILE PHOTO: A woman stands in front of an electric screen displaying the current Nikkei share average and Japanese Yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar as Japan's yen hits 34-year low against the U.S. dollar after Bank of Japan holds interest rates, outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan April 26, 2024. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo
international business
IMF urges Bank of Japan to tread cautiously in raising interest rates
The Japanese flag flies over part of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) headquarters complex in central Tokyo on March 19, 2024. Japan's central bank was widely expected later on March 19 to scrap its maverick negative interest rate policy and hike borrowing costs for the first time in 17 years, according to economists and media reports. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP) (Photo by RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images)
international business
IMF says yen’s declines ‘significant’ but reflect rate differentials
FILE PHOTO: Japanese yen and U.S. dollar banknotes are seen with a currency exchange rate graph in this illustration picture taken June 16, 2022. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration/File Photo
globe investor
Asia braces for unwanted, but unavoidable FX battle
Jamie McGeever
globe investor
Why is the Japanese yen so weak?
This photo illustration taken on April 10, 2024 shows Japanese yen coins and 10,000 yen notes (65 USD) on display in Tokyo.
number cruncher
6 attractive Japanese dividend stocks positioned to rise
For Number Cruncher column in Globe Investor/ROB only.
investment ideas
Japan’s Nikkei stock index breaks its 1989 record and surges to an all-time high
Pedestrians watch an electronic board displaying the closing numbers of Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo on Feb. 22.
investment ideas
Japan’s crazy 1980s bubble a dim memory as Nikkei hits record high
Visitors using their smartphones take photos of an electronic screen displaying Japan's Nikkei share average surged past an all-time record high scaled in December 1989, inside a building in Tokyo, Japan February 22.
investment ideas
At last, FOMO puts Japan’s stocks back on global wishlist
A pedestrian walks past an electronic board showing the closing numbers of the Tokyo Stock Exchange (L) and the rate of the Japanese yen versus the US dollar (R) along a street in Tokyo on Feb. 8.
investment ideas
Breezy bitcoin reclaims $1-trillion crown
Physical representations of the bitcoin cryptocurrency are seen in this illustration taken October 24, 2023.
asia-pacific business
Japan’s SoftBank Group marks a return to profit as it cuts Vision Fund losses
TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 07: A pedestrian walks past a SoftBank branch on February 07, 2024 in Tokyo, Japan. SoftBank Group Corp. is a Japanese multinational holding company that focuses on investment management, with interests in mobile and internet services, clean energy, smart robotics, and other areas. It has investments in various large and mega-cap companies, including Arm, Alibaba, OYO Rooms, WeWork, and Deutsche Telekom. (Photo by Tomohiro Ohsumi/Getty Images)
international business
Japan’s Nippon Steel says it is on track to close U.S. Steel deal by September
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Nippon Steel Corporation is displayed at the company headquarters in Tokyo, Japan in this photo taken by Kyodo May 1, 2019. Kyodo/via REUTERS/File Photo
world
Japan PM Fumio Kishida vows more funds to quake-hit zone
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, front center, listens to Wajima City Mayor Shigeru Sakaguchi, front left, at an evacuation center in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. Kishida visited the country's north-central region of Noto for the first time since the Jan. 1 quakes, amid growing criticism of slow relief work reaching those needed and concern about deteriorating health of the evacuees, many of them elderly people. (Kyodo News via AP)
investment ideas
Sparkling start puts spotlight on Nikkei in 2024
An electronic stock board shows Japan's Nikkei 225 index in Tokyo Friday, Jan. 12.
investment ideas
Yen bulls spy a ray of hope in BOJ policy hint
A man walks past an electronic board displaying Japan's 10-year government bonds level, the current Japanese Yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and Nikkei share average, outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, October 31.
investment ideas
Why volatility on currency market has suddenly disappeared
Mike Dolan
investment ideas
Black Friday is (almost) here: World market themes for the week ahead
People shop ahead of Black Friday at a Walmart Supercenter on Nov. 14 in Burbank, Cal.
asia-pacific business
Japan’s finance minister reiterates readiness for ‘appropriate’ currency market action
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki arrives for a news conference during the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, following last month's deadly earthquake, in Marrakech, Morocco, October 13, 2023. REUTERS/Susana Vera
technology
Sony maintains PS5 sales target despite operating profit sliding on chip slump
(FILES) This file photo taken on January 31, 2023 shows the Sony logo outside the company's headquarters in Tokyo. The entertainment giant was expected to release second quarter earnings later in the day on November 9, 2023. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) (Photo by PHILIP FONG/AFP via Getty Images)
asia-pacific business
Japan compiles US$113-billion package to cushion economic blow from inflation
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo on November 2, 2023. Kishida announced a stimulus package worth more than 110 billion USD on November 2, 2023 as he tries to ease the pressure from inflation and rescue his premiership with his poll ratings at a record low. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota / various sources / AFP) (Photo by KIYOSHI OTA/AFP/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
international business
Toyota’s quarterly profit jumps on cheap yen, strong global sales
FILE - The Toyota logo is shown on a dealership in Manchester, N.H., in this Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019, file photo. Toyota will invest an additional $8 billion in the hybrid and electric vehicle battery factory it's constructing in central North Carolina, more than doubling its prior investments and expected number of new jobs, the company announced Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
international business
Panasonic cuts battery unit’s profit outlook, warns on high-end EV sales
FILE PHOTO: The Panasonic booth is shown during the 2020 CES in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. January 7, 2020. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo
asia-pacific business
Japan says any decision on currency market intervention would be based on volatility, not yen levels
FILE PHOTO: Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks with the media after a meeting of G7 leaders on the sidelines of G20 finance ministers' and Central Bank governors' meeting at Gandhinagar, India, July 16, 2023. REUTERS/Amit Dave/File Photo
asia-pacific business
Japan says it’s watching currency market moves with ‘strong sense of urgency’ as yen slides
A man walks past an electric monitor displaying the Japanese yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar, Euro and other foreign currencies outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan May 2, 2023. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File photo
asia-pacific business
Japan’s finance minister warns markets as yen nears intervention danger zone
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki speaks with the media after a meeting of G7 leaders on the sidelines of G20 finance ministers' and Central Bank governors' meeting at Gandhinagar, India, July 16, 2023. REUTERS/Amit Dave
asia-pacific business
Yen skids as Bank of Japan maintains ultralow interest rates, dovish guidance
Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda speaks during a press conference after holding a monetary policy meeting at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo on September 22, 2023. The Bank of Japan stuck to its ultra-loose monetary policy on September 22, though officials face increasing pressure to turn more hawkish as the yen weakens and after fresh data showed inflation remained stubbornly high. (Photo by JIJI Press / AFP) / Japan OUT (Photo by STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)
energy and resources
Japan’s Mitsui, Canada’s Northland Power to build a one gigawatt offshore wind farm in Taiwan
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asia-pacific business
Japanese PM Fumio Kishida seeks to shake up $5-trillion asset management industry
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Awards, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
asia-pacific business
Japan warns against post-Fed yen slide, says government is monitoring currency markets
People walk in front of an electronic stock board showing Japan's Nikkei 225 index and U.S. dollar/Japanese yen exchange rate at a securities firm Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, in Tokyo. Stock prices were mostly higher in Asia on Monday as investors awaited U.S. inflation figures and China’s latest economic data. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)