A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...

Strong US data drives USD/JPY gains. Trade headlines, Services PMIs, Powell’s speech, and Tokyo inflation could shift yen ...

USD/JPY and AUD/USD move on trade talk progress, US PPI data, and Aussie housing trends. Policy paths in Japan, US, and ...

Japan’s core inflation rate fell to 3.3% in June, offering some relief after hitting a 29-month high. The core inflation ...

Asian stock markets began Friday's session with modest gains, as a rally in global equities gained fresh momentum from strong ...

Japans annual wholesale inflation slowed for the third straight month in June, reinforcing the Bank of Japans (BOJ) ...

Japan's upper house election on Sunday could shake up politics, with rising prices and a populist party gaining ground.

TOKYO -- Japan's stubbornly high inflation and U.S. trade tariffs are casting a pall over both this month's upper house election race and the central bank's efforts to normalize monetary policy.

Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. It has stayed put despite headline and ...

While tepid, economic growth remains positive globally and, in the U.S., could improve toward the end of the year and into ...

Rising long-term Japanese government bond yields point to growing nervousness about the future – and not just inflation ...

US core inflation rose by 0.3% in June, the biggest increase since January, as tariffs pushed up import costs.