Japan's Finance Ministry says it intervened in the currency market in July to support the yen. The action conducted with the ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's economic and policies could further weaken the yen's value against the U.S. dollar, the ...

The Japanese central bank raised its policy interest rate to 0.25% at the end of July after the yen weakened to around 162 against the dollar earlier that month. BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda said at the time ...

The Fed (and other central banks) influences employment and inflation primarily by using monetary policy tools to control the availability and cost of credit in the economy.

A weaker yen below JPY155 and toward JPY160 against the greenback could induce the Bank of Japan board to increase the policy ...

One nightmare scenario for policymakers would be a renewed plunge in the yen towards the three-decade trough near 162 to the ...

One of Japan’s biggest regional banks is keen to resume buying the nation’s bonds as interest rates creep higher, adding to a ...

A US dollar rally triggered by Republican Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election could heighten pressure on ...

The Federal Reserve (Fed) lowered the policy rate by 25 bps to the range of 4.5%-4.75% after the November meeting. The US ...

Each sector reacted differently based on policy shift expectations.

Japanese workers’ base salaries saw the largest increase in over three decades, supporting the Bank of Japan’s view that the economy remains on the recovery track and backing the case for a rate hike ...

The policy board will want more evidence of a durable wage-price spiral, but the weaker yen may force an earlier hike ...