BoJ and RBA decisions dominate 2025’s early trends. Wage growth, inflation, and China’s stimulus measures drive Forex markets. Read key insights here.

The Bank of Japan looks set to raise interest rates this week unless Trump’s inauguration address as U.S. president on Monday rattles financial markets, say people familiar with the central bank’s thinking.

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -Asian stocks edged up on Friday, drawing support from unexpectedly strong growth in China's economy at the end of last year, although gains were limited by caution ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as U.

The announcement by the People's Bank of China that it has suspended treasury bond purchases due to the asset's scarcity highlights the limitations of its resources as it confronts an increasingly challenging economic environment.

Global markets await BoJ decision and Trump’s policies. USD/JPY and AUD/USD trends hinge on central bank moves and macroeconomic shifts.

The PBOC's seven-day reverse repo rate, its new benchmark policy rate since last year, stands at 1.5% after a total of 30 basis point (bps) cuts in 2024. It is 203 bps lower than in May 2012, the first data point publicly available.

In the BANK OF CHINA HONG KONG TENNIS OPEN final on Sunday, Kei Nishikori faces Alexandre Muller.In his last competition, Nishikori fell to Holger Vitus Nodskov Rune 6-3, 2-6, 5-7 in the

It doesn't really help either that the dollar is also positively correlating with a rising oil price. It's too much of a stretch to label the greenback a petrocurrency; nonetheless, as US shale-oil explorers have the ability to scale up, crude prices being buoyed by geopolitical tensions will only add to the dollar's resilience.

The Kobeissi Letter indicated that China recorded lower interest rates for the first time in 30 years than Japan. The report also highlighted that China’s economy is currently described as a “deflationary spiral,

Relief from the positive U.S. and UK inflation surprises this week appears to have evaporated, at least as far as equity markets are concerned, even as Treasury yields and the dollar continue to drift lower into the last trading day of the week.

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The U.S. dollar steadied on Thursday despite the sharp fall in U.S. bond yields after Wednesday’s inflation data as market focus shifted to Donald Trump’s presidential