The central bank’s key interest rate is below the level at which it neither stimulates nor restricts growth, while underlying ...

Asian equities declined amid concerns over potential US interest rate cuts and President Trump's trade tariff deadline. The ...

Confidence among Japan’s large manufacturers edged up in June, reflecting resilience in the face of the escalating US tariff ...

The African Development Bank will give South Africa a $474.6 million loan to upgrade its transport and energy infrastructure, the bank said on Tuesday, the second big infrastructure loan the country ...

The central bank kept its policy rate at minus-0.1%, leaving Japan as the only major economy in which the key rate remains negative. But the BOJ also loosened its policy of managing the yield of ...

The Bank of Japan said it would be more flexible in how it managed government bond yields, citing rising inflation. By Rich Barbieri and Joe Rennison Rich Barbieri reported from Seoul, and Joe ...

VIENNA -- Japan and OPEC agreed Tuesday to establish a dialogue between senior officials as Tokyo makes new efforts for energy security. Kei Takagi, Japan's parliamentary vice minister for foreign ...

Japan’s central bank took a step toward allowing interest rates to rise, saying it will be more flexible in managing its bond market. By Ben Dooley Reporting from Tokyo No country in the world ...

Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg. As central bank decisions go, the one Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will make this week may be the toughest in modern history.

In december the Bank of Japan (boj) gave speculators an opening. By lifting its cap on ten-year government bond yields from 0.25% to 0.5%, the central bank raised the prospect that it would ...

The Bank of Japan raised rates by 0.25%, a sharp departure from its historically easy money policies, knocking investors back on their heels.

The Bank of Japan has raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point, the highest in 17 years, signalling efforts to normalise monetary policy in response to persistent inflation and ...