Within Japan, telecom and banking stocks saw the largest inflows, at $2.9 billion and $2.1 billion respectively. SoftBank ...

BofA raised its real GDP growth forecast for calendar-year 2025 to 1.3% from 0.9%, and for 2026 to 0.7% from 0.5%, citing retroactive GDP revisions and the fiscal stance of Japan’s new administration.

Three decades after a bad debt crisis in Japan forced a wave of mergers that created its mega lenders, the focus now is on ...

Another day, another piece of evidence that President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with friends and foes is hurting the global economy. Today: Japan’s central bank cut its economic growth ...

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan held its policy rate steady as it waits for uncertainties in the U.S. to clear and for more evidence of wage growth at home, but expectations of rate hikes on the horizon ...

The Bank of Japan on Thursday held its benchmark interest rate steady at 0.25%, surprising economists polled by Reuters, who expected a 25 basis points hike. The BOJ said in its statement that the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan is likely to debate next week whether conditions are ripe to resume rate hikes as worries about a tariff-induced recession ease, though political complications may ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) spooked markets Friday by announcing it will begin unwinding its $250 billion in exchange traded funds (ETFs) and Japanese Real Estate Investment Trusts (JREITs), assets it ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) and the Ministry of Finance have been expressing deepening concern over the yen's trajectory. Click ...

Japan’s central bank should raise rates when its policy board meets this week, and failure to do so will weaken the yen and exacerbate inflation, said Takeshi Niinami, chief executive officer of ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said he wanted "just a bit more data" on next year's wage-growth direction and warned of ...