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1 week ago | 
gurutrade.com | Mariko Katsumura |Himani Sarkar |Shri Navaratnam
BOJ to scrutinise market moves, economic impact, official says
Japan, US share view markets set FX rates, finance minister says
Finance minister Kato says arranging to travel for spring IMF meetings
TOKYO, April 15 (Reuters) - Global markets are experiencing volatility from uncertainty over U.S. tariff policy but not seeing a huge decline in short-term liquidity, a senior Bank of Japan official said on Tuesday.
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2 weeks ago | 
gurutrade.com | Leika Kihara |Himani Sarkar |Muralikumar Anantharaman |Jamie Freed
Trump tariffs to affect trade, business sentiment, Ueda says Impact on Japan prices hard to say, may work both ways Ueda says uncertainty on outlook has heightened BOJ tankan underscores central bank's forecast of moderate recovery BOJ to keep hiking rates if underlying inflation heads toward 2% TOKYO, April 4 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday the central bank will scrutinise the impact of U.S. tariffs on the country's economy when setting monetary policy, warning...
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3 weeks ago | 
gurutrade.com | Yuka Obayashi |Kiyoshi Takenaka |Himani Sarkar |Jamie Freed
TOKYO, April 3 (Reuters) - Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp said on Thursday it planned to invest at least 4 trillion yen ($27 billion) over the next three years to drive growth and aimed to lift its net profit to 1.2 trillion yen in the 2027/28 financial year.
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3 weeks ago | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Tom Westbrook |Himani Sarkar
MARKETS WRAP Wall Street took a nosedive as Trump's towering new trade barriers sent investors scrambling for gold, bonds, and the yen.
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3 weeks ago | 
gurutrade.com | Stefano Rebaudo |Himani Sarkar |Stephen Coates |Aidan Lewis
U.S. President Trump to announce tariff details on Wednesday
Euro drops with markets betting on ECB rate cut in April
Aussie flat after RBA decision
April 1 (Reuters) - The yen jumped and the dollar index edged higher on Tuesday as investors moved into safe-haven currencies ahead of reciprocal tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump is due to announce on Wednesday.
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3 weeks ago | 
gurutrade.com | Ziyi Tang |Ryan Woo |Sumeet Chatterjee |Himani Sarkar
Banks raise consumer loan rates to at least 3%
Top lenders have warned of growing personal bad loans
Higher rates could deter China's consumption push, analysts warn
BEIJING, April 1 (Reuters) - Some Chinese banks have started raising interest rates amid growing bad consumer loans in a dramatic U-turn just weeks after slashing them to unprecedented lows, a move that is expected to weigh on Beijing's efforts to stimulate a sluggish economy.
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3 weeks ago | 
gurutrade.com | Liangping Gao |Ryan Woo |Himani Sarkar
BEIJING, April 1 (Reuters) - Average resale home prices across 100 Chinese cities fell at a sharper month-on-month pace in March, a private survey showed on Tuesday, signalling persistent challenges in the property sector despite modest gains in new home prices.
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Asif Shahzad |Himani Sarkar |Rachna Uppal
ISLAMABAD, March 25 (Reuters) - Pakistan's inflation is likely to remain steady in March, in the 1% to 1.5% range, the country's finance ministry said in its monthly economic outlook, after slowing to its lowest level in almost a decade the previous month.
However, inflation could edge up slightly in April to the 2% to 3% range, the report, released on Tuesday, indicated.
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1 month ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Kantaro Komiya |Himani Sarkar |Yuka Obayashi |Saad Sayeed
TOKYO (Reuters) -Nippon Steel's president said on Monday that the Japanese steelmaker and the U.S. government share a mutual understanding that its planned acquisition of U.S. Steel will strengthen the American steel industry and manufacturing...
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Leika Kihara |Himani Sarkar |Shri Navaratnam
Feb core CPI rises 3.0% yr/yr vs forecast +2.9%
Index excluding fuel rises 2.6% yr/yr in February
Data keeps alive market bets of further BOJ rate hikes
TOKYO, March 21 (Reuters) - Japan's core inflation hit 3.0% in February and an index stripping away the effect of fuel rose at the fastest pace in nearly a year, a sign of broadening price pressure that reinforces market expectations of further interest rate hikes.
