TOKYO -- The ruling party election likely to choose Japan's next prime minister is shaping up to be a three-way race among ...

The visit by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to South Korea earlier this month created a few ripples. No major ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is expected to keep its short-term interest rate target between 0.15% and 0.25% on Friday, following ...

Markets appear happy, for now, that the Fed’s half-point rate cut will help avert a U.S. recession, and so a global one.

More interest rate cuts are set to come in Switzerland and Sweden after a supersized Federal Reserve rate move, with U.S.

The central bank on Friday kept the uncollateralized overnight call rate steady at 0.25% following a two-day meeting of its ...

Japan may still be grappling with the far-reaching consequences of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, but the politicians vying ...

The Bank of Japan kept policy unchanged Friday as it avoided a repetition of the market meltdown that followed its July rate ...

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