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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 ...