The yen was set for its best January performance since 2018 on Friday, driven by the expectation for Japanese interest rates ...

Relatively strong sales forecasts from Apple overnight helped support market sentiment. European stocks were up 0.4% in early trading ...

Teikoku Databank, a research company that tracks historic changes in the cost of assembling a plate of Japan’s beloved curry rice, found that the cost of the dish hit an all-time high of ¥377 in ...

The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an academic favouring an end ...

Ueda said the BOJ’s policy settings are still accommodative after recent rate hikes and that would remain the case as the central bank continues to support the inflation trend.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday the central bank must maintain loose monetary policy to ensure underlying ...

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday that underlying inflation is still somewhat below 2%. Ueda added that ...

Asian shares wavered on Friday, weighed down by the return of tech-heavy South Korean stocks from holidays, but relatively strong earnings from US tech giants kept risk sentiment intact while tariff ...

Consumer prices excluding fresh food in the capital climbed 2.5% in January from a year earlier, the fastest pace since last ...

Japan needs to promote digitalisation as rising inflation and interest rates will increase demand for new financial services ...

In Japan, the yen was last a touch stronger at 154.19 per dollar, having already climbed more than 1% for the week thus far.

JGBs fell in early Tokyo trading amid fears of further BOJ rate increases.