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Japan’s Inflation Surge Is Now A Political Crisis
On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...
Core Inflation in Japan's Capital Stays Above BOJ Target in July
TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital stayed well above the central bank's 2% target in July, data ...
Japan Trade Deal Means Less Inflation. Bonds Are Pricing It In.
Expectations of where inflation will be in the coming years, already declining, have taken a further dive as a result of the ...
Japan: Opportunity Trumps Politics
The U.S. trade deal will further support improving economic fundamentals in Japan, which underpin our constructive equity ...
Japan Inflation Eases, But BOJ Still Faces Policy Challenges
A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...
Trump Agrees to EU Tariff Deal as Fed Meets With Inflation and Jobs Data on Tap
The EU, a group of countries with shared economic interests, exports about $2 trillion worth of goods to the U.S. The 27 ...
Japan's core inflation cools in June as expected, coming down from 29-month high as rice prices ease
The increase in rice prices slowed marginally to a 100.2% increase year over year, down from 101.7% in May.
How Japan's election outcome muddles the BOJ's policy path
Japan's election outcome may put the central bank in a double bind as prospects of big spending could keep inflation elevated ...
The rise of Japan's far right was supercharged by Trump - and tourists
With their "Japanese First" slogan, riffing off US President Donald Trump's "America First", they have truly ruffled the ...
Japan's Ishiba Says He'll Stay in Office to Tackle Inflation and US Tariffs Despite Election Loss
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he will stay in office to tackle challenges such as rising ...
BOJ sees trade deal as raising chance of meeting inflation goal
Japan's trade deal with the U.S. has reduced uncertainty surrounding the economy, the central bank's deputy governor Shinichi Uchida said, signaling optimism that conditions for resuming interest rate ...