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1 week ago | 
gurutrade.com | Leika Kihara |Satoshi Sugiyama |Sam Holmes
Tokyo core CPI rises 3.6% yr/yr in May vs f'cast +3.5% Index excluding fresh food, fuel up 3.3% yr/yr in May Services inflation perks up, bodes well for rate-hike prospect Factory output slides in April as US tariff impact looms Data underscores sticky food inflation, more price hikes eyed TOKYO, May 30 (Reuters) - Core inflation in Japan's capital hit a more than two-year high on persistent rises in food costs, data showed on Friday, keeping the central bank under pressure to hike interest...
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2 months ago | 
gurutrade.com | Rae Wee |Shri Navaratnam |Sam Holmes
Stocks extend global selloff on Trump's tariffs
Japanese banks hit hard
Investors fear U.S. recession, ramp up bets on Fed rate cuts
Safe-haven assets rise, 10-year UST yield falls below 4%
SINGAPORE, April 4 (Reuters) - Japanese banks tanked on Friday and stocks globally extended a punishing selloff in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs, helping drive a rally in U.S. Treasuries and supporting gold near a record peak.
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2 months ago | 
gurutrade.com | Liangping Gao |Ryan Woo |Sam Holmes
BEIJING, April 1 (Reuters) - China's factory activity expanded at its fastest pace in four months in March, buoyed by stronger demand and robust export orders, a private-sector survey showed on Tuesday, although the escalating U.S. trade war clouds the outlook.
The Caixin/S&P Global manufacturing PMI climbed to 51.2 in March from 50.8 in the previous month, surpassing analyst expectations of 51.1. The 50-mark separates growth from contraction.
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2 months ago | 
gurutrade.com | Ethan Wang |Sam Holmes
Official manufacturing PMI at 50.5 in March, best in 12 months
Non-manufacturing growth in March quickens to 50.8
Readings show improved domestic demand, foreign frontloading
BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China's manufacturing activity expanded at the fastest pace in a year in March, a factory survey showed on Monday, with new orders boosting production, giving the world's No. 2 economy some reprieve as it deals with an intensifying U.S. trade war.
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Feb 28, 2025 | 
gurutrade.com | Kevin Buckland |Greta Rosén Fondahn |Sam Holmes |Susan Fenton
Trump reiterates Canada, Mexico tariff deadline of next week
Trump says 10% China levy is on top of existing duties
Stocks retreat in Europe, Asia; dollar buoyant
Bitcoin slides below $80,000
GDANSK/TOKYO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - World stocks fell to their lowest levels in almost four weeks on Friday, while the dollar hovered near multi-week highs, as the prospect of higher U.S. tariffs sent jitters through markets and revived concerns about an escalating global trade war.
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Feb 7, 2025 | 
gurutrade.com | Satoshi Sugiyama |Chang-Ran Kim |Sam Holmes
TOKYO, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Japanese household spending rose for the first time in five months in year-on-year terms in December and at a much faster-than-expected pace, but the government said it was too early to call a bottoming out in consumption's downtrend.
Consumer expenditure climbed 2.7% in December from a year earlier, data from the internal affairs ministry showed on Friday, better than the median market forecast for a 0.5% uptick.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
gurutrade.com | Kaori Kaneko |Sam Holmes
TOKYO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Japan's service activity swung back to growth in November as improving demand supported new business, a private sector survey showed on Wednesday.
The final au Jibun Bank Service purchasing managers' index (PMI) rose to 50.5 in November from 49.7 in October, according to the survey compiled by the S&P Global Market Intelligence.
It was slightly higher than a flash reading of 50.2 and rose above the 50.0 threshold separating expansion from contraction.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
gurutrade.com | Kaori Kaneko |Sam Holmes
TOKYO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Japan's factory activity contracted for the fifth straight month in November due to sluggish demand caused by worries over China's economic slowdown and persistent cost pressures, a private-sector survey showed on Friday.
The au Jibun Bank flash Japan manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) slipped slightly to 49.0 in November from 49.2 in October.
The index stayed below the 50.0 threshold separating growth from contraction for a fifth straight month.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
gurutrade.com | Kevin Buckland |Sam Holmes |Muralikumar Anantharaman
TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - The dollar was set for its biggest one-day rise since March 2020 against major peers on Wednesday and bitcoin jumped to an all-time high as so-called "Trump trades" took off, with traders increasingly betting on a U.S. election victory for the former president.
Republican Donald Trump led Democrat Kamala Harris by 247 electoral votes to 210, after Trump took the key battleground state of Georgia, based on projections from Edison Research.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
gurutrade.com | Ellen Zhang |Ryan Woo |Sam Holmes
Official factory PMI shrinks in Sept, albeit more slowly Private survey reading falls notably from August expansion Official services PMI cools for 1st time since December Expectations on fiscal aid rise to spur growth momentum BEIJING, Sept 30 (Reuters) - China's factory activity shrank for a fifth straight month and the services sector slowed sharply in September, suggesting Beijing will need even more stimulus to hit its 2024 growth target with only three months left in the year. The...
