Asian markets forged higher on Thursday after the Federal Reserve kicked off its efforts to prevent a recession in the U.S. with a bigger-than-usual cut to interest rates. In Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 ...

Asian stocks started the week with modest gains after U.S. stocks finished their best week of the year, approaching record levels. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng swung between gains and ...

The August CPI report will be released a day before the central bank’s rate announcement. Expectations heading into the event ...

The data are an indication that a key peg of the virtuous cycle long sought by Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Kazuo Ueda may be falling into place. The BOJ has said it expects wage gains to fuel ...

The BOJ raised interest rates to 0.25% from the previous range of 0%-0.1% in July. Write to Megumi Fujikawa at [email protected] About Dow Jones Newswires Dow Jones Newswires is a market ...

The BOJ has said it expects wage gains to fuel demand-led inflation, a condition it needs to confirm as it continues along the path toward normalizing policy after maintaining ultra-easy settings ...

Ueda made the remark in a document submitted to a government panel chaired by outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in which he explained the BOJ’s July policy decision. The yen firmed against ...

Over the years, particularly in our odd postpandemic era of rewritten social contracts for public behavior, concerts have increasingly become arenas for audiences to scream-sing (or just plain ...

On Friday, August 30, inflation figures for Tokyo heightened expectations of a Q4 2024 BOJ rate hike, impacting the USD/JPY. The core inflation rate rose from 2.2% in July to 2.4% in August ...

At last, the BOJ has a policy framework better aligned with those of major central banks globally. In a time of both misinformation and too much information, quality journalism is more crucial ...

TOKYO—Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area rose at a faster-than-expected pace in August, stoking speculation that the Bank of Japan will soon raise interest rates again. Tokyo’s ...

A separate index that strips away the effects of both fresh food and fuel costs, closely watched by the BOJ as a broader price trend indicator, rose 1.6% in August from a year earlier after a 1.5% ...