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Energy & Commodities · Aug 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Minamitorishima is about 1.51 square kilometres of flat Pacific land, roughly the size of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace grounds, some 1,950 kilometres southeast…
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Global · Aug 15, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan producer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, with petroleum and coal products subtracting 0.20 percentage points and utilities adding 0.23.
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Japan · Aug 14, 2026 · 6 min read
South Korea's Kospi led Asia for a fifth consecutive session on Friday, closing 2.42 percent higher, while the region split and the…
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Japan · Aug 13, 2026 · 7 min read
South Korea's Kospi surged for a fourth consecutive session on Thursday, adding 3.56 percent, while North Asia broadly advanced, mainland China fell…
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Japan · Aug 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Asian equities carried the session on Wednesday, led by a 3.68 percent surge in South Korea's Kospi, while Gulf bourses closed mostly…
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Japan · Aug 11, 2026 · 5 min read
Regional and Asian markets turned cautious on Tuesday, the final session before US inflation data that will test the week's entire narrative,…
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Japan · Aug 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Asian markets opened the week sharply higher on Monday as the relief that lifted Wall Street after the US jobs shock extended…
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Japan · Aug 10, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan recorded a current account deficit of ninety two point three billion yen in June, its first monthly deficit in seventeen months,…
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Japan · Aug 7, 2026 · 6 min read
Japan's Ministry of Finance has confirmed on the record that it bought yen in coordination with the United States Treasury on Friday…
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Japan · Aug 7, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan's Ministry of Finance sold 30-year government bonds on 6 August 2026 into firm demand, published international reserves for the end of…
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Japan · Aug 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Japan's monetary base continued to contract in July and the minutes of its June policy meeting, released on 5 August 2026, confirmed…
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Japan · Aug 4, 2026 · 5 min read
Japan and the United States intervened jointly in the foreign exchange market to support the yen, the first yen-buying intervention by the…
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Japan exported 11.51 trillion yen of goods in July, a rise of 23.2 percent on the same month a year earlier. It imported 12.15 trillion yen, up 27.8 percent. The trade balance was a deficit of 634.5 billion yen, against 156.3 billion in July 2025 — a widening of 306.0 percent. Both sides of the…
Asia’s selloff turned into a rout on Wednesday, led by the chip complex, while the Gulf split and Kuwait advanced, per CNBC. South Korea’s Kospi plunged 5.80 percent in a fall that led to a temporary halt in trading at the open, per CNBC, Japan’s Nikkei 225 sank 3.16 percent and the Shenzhen Component lost…
Asia sold off on Tuesday while the Gulf steadied, an inversion of Monday’s map, as the first full session after the 60-day window between the United States and Iran expired ran into rising long-term yields across the globe, per CNBC. Japan’s Nikkei 225 sank 2.54 percent to lead losses among the region’s major benchmarks, South…
Gulf equities slipped broadly on Monday while China rallied, as the 60-day ceasefire between the United States and Iran expired with no official negotiations or deal in sight, per CNBC. Shenzhen jumped 2.44 percent to lead Asia, Qatar fell 1.52 percent and Kuwait 0.90 percent to lead the region lower, and Egypt touched a record…
Japan’s economy grew 0.3 percent in the second quarter, an annualised 1.1 percent, according to the first preliminary estimate published by the Cabinet Office on 17 August. That undershot the 2.0 percent annualised rate expected in a Reuters poll of economists and followed 0.5 percent growth in the first quarter. Two rows further down the…
Egyptian and Saudi equities led a broadly firm Sunday session across the Middle East and North Africa, with the EGX 30 climbing 1.09 percent to 55,854.74 and Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul All Share Index adding 0.89 percent to 10,919.68. Asia, the United States and Europe were closed, and their Friday closes are carried for reference throughout….
Minamitorishima is about 1.51 square kilometres of flat Pacific land, roughly the size of Tokyo’s Imperial Palace grounds, some 1,950 kilometres southeast of the capital. What gives it weight is the exclusive economic zone it generates — approximately 430,000 square kilometres, larger than Japan’s entire landmass — and what lies beneath the seabed within it….
Japan producer prices rose 0.1 percent in July, with petroleum and coal products subtracting 0.20 percentage points and utilities adding 0.23.
South Korea’s Kospi led Asia for a fifth consecutive session on Friday, closing 2.42 percent higher, while the region split and the Gulf was almost entirely shut. Six of the ten Asian benchmarks tracked here rose. In MENA only the United Arab Emirates traded, with Abu Dhabi holding its ground and Dubai easing. Seoul was…
South Korea’s Kospi surged for a fourth consecutive session on Thursday, adding 3.56 percent, while North Asia broadly advanced, mainland China fell and most Gulf bourses closed lower. Egypt extended its run and oil dropped about 2 percent. The Kospi closed at 6,813.34, up 3.56 percent and again the largest move among the 20 benchmarks…