To address Japan's inflation problem and manage inflation expectations, the Bank of Japan needs to continue to hike rates.

Japan must fix "any misunderstanding" held by U.S. President Donald Trump that its central bank was intentionally weakening ...

But the yen pulled back sharply and bond yields declined after Bank of Japan (BOJ) chief Kazuo Ueda said the central bank could step up government bond buying if long-term interest rates jump.

The Japanese Yen (JPY) sticks to modest intraday gains on the back of stronger Producer Price Index (PPI) released from Japan earlier this Thursday, which reaffirms bets that the Bank of Japan ...

The Japanese Yen gains some positive traction following an Asian session downtick. Bets for more interest rate hikes by the BoJ continue to act as a tailwind for the JPY. The divergent BoJ-Fed ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation ... helped the economy surge back after the Covid-19 pandemic ...

The BOJ decision spurred investors to sell the yen and buy the dollar on expectations that interest rate gaps between Japan and the United States are unlikely to narrow anytime soon. The Japanese ...

That makes Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping the big winners and the US the "big loser," he added, with Japan's yen displacing the ... Ukraine while the US pulls back. Roche predicted Europe will ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan must fix "any misunderstanding" held by U.S. President Donald Trump that its central bank was intentionally weakening the yen with ... proceed on this front, such as ...