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Global · Jul 31, 2026 · 6 min read
The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 1.0 percent by an eight to one vote and revised its inflation outlook,…
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Global · Jul 25, 2026 · 2 min read
Consumer price inflation in Japan rose to 1.7 percent in June 2026 from a year earlier, up from 1.5 percent in May,…
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Global · Jul 22, 2026 · 2 min read
The Japanese yen has fallen to its weakest level since 1986, with the dollar reaching around 163 yen, prompting the government in…
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Global · Jul 10, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's corporate goods price index rose 7.1 percent in June from a year earlier, the fastest annual pace since March 2023, accelerating…
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Global · Jul 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Japanese household spending fell in May from a year earlier for a second straight month, but by far less than expected and…
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Global · Jul 8, 2026 · 3 min read
Japanese workers saw their real wages rise for a fifth consecutive month in May, as nominal pay growth stayed above 3 percent,…
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Japan · Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Gulf markets started the second half of the year mostly higher, led by Dubai and Oman, while Egypt ended little changed and…
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Global · Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Business confidence among Japan's largest manufacturers rose to an eight year high in the second quarter, according to the Bank of Japan's…
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Egypt · Jul 1, 2026 · 3 min read
Egypt has issued 80 billion Japanese yen, about US$500 million, in sustainability Samurai bonds in Japan, supported by a partial credit guarantee…
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Global · Jun 30, 2026 · 2 min read
Consumer inflation in Tokyo picked up in June, the fastest pace in three months, reinforcing expectations that the Bank of Japan will…
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Global · Jun 27, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo consumer inflation accelerated in June, giving markets an early signal that Japan's price pressures are firming again after several months of…
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Global · Jun 27, 2026 · 4 min read
The Bank of Japan has moved further into policy normalisation, with its June communication pointing to more rate increases if the economy…
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Asian equities carried the session on Wednesday, led by a 3.68 percent surge in South Korea’s Kospi, while Gulf bourses closed mostly firmer and Egypt extended its advance. Hong Kong was the clear laggard. The Kospi closed at 6,579.04, up 3.68 percent and the largest move among the 20 benchmarks in the table below, per…
Regional and Asian markets turned cautious on Tuesday, the final session before US inflation data that will test the week’s entire narrative, with most Gulf benchmarks slipping, China and Hong Kong giving back part of Monday’s rebound, and the Egyptian pound crossing the 50 per dollar mark for the first time in our tracking of…
Asian markets opened the week sharply higher on Monday as the relief that lifted Wall Street after the US jobs shock extended across the region, while regional markets split and oil reclaimed the mid-80s on Brent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 jumped 2.08 percent and South Korea’s small-cap Kosdaq surged 6.97 percent, per CNBC, while in the…
Japan recorded a current account deficit of ninety two point three billion yen in June, its first monthly deficit in seventeen months, the Ministry of Finance said on 10 August. Economists surveyed by Reuters had expected a surplus of one point five one trillion yen. That headline figure is unadjusted, and the adjusted series tells…
Japan’s Ministry of Finance has confirmed on the record that it bought yen in coordination with the United States Treasury on Friday 31 July 2026, United States Eastern time. What neither government has confirmed is the currency the American side sold to do it, and a well-sourced press account that it sold euros has now…
Japan’s Ministry of Finance sold 30-year government bonds on 6 August 2026 into firm demand, published international reserves for the end of July on 7 August, and the Statistics Bureau released June household spending the same morning. Taken together the three describe an economy with a stable external position and a household sector still losing…
Japan’s monetary base continued to contract in July and the minutes of its June policy meeting, released on 5 August 2026, confirmed that the Bank raised its policy rate at that meeting by a vote of seven to one. The monetary base averaged 5,549,259 hundred million yen in July, down 13.8 percent from a year…
Japan and the United States intervened jointly in the foreign exchange market to support the yen, the first yen-buying intervention by the two authorities in 28 years, according to a statement issued by Japan’s Ministry of Finance. In a statement issued on 3 August by the Minister of Finance, KATAYAMA Satsuki, the ministry said it…
The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 1.0 percent by an eight to one vote and revised its inflation outlook, signalling a gradual approach to further tightening.
Consumer price inflation in Japan rose to 1.7 percent in June 2026 from a year earlier, up from 1.5 percent in May, according to data reported on 24 July 2026. Core inflation, which excludes fresh food and is the Bank of Japan’s main gauge, rose to 1.6 percent from 1.4 percent in May, in line…