A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...

Tariffs pose rising inflation and rate cut risks for H2 2025 as CPI data hints at early price pressures in key goods. See why ...

Strong US data drives USD/JPY gains. Trade headlines, Services PMIs, Powell’s speech, and Tokyo inflation could shift yen ...

USD/JPY rallies as Trump’s tariffs hit BoJ rate hike bets. Japan inflation, trade, and US data to guide pair’s next move.

Japan’s core inflation rate fell to 3.3% in June, offering some relief after hitting a 29-month high. The core inflation ...

Japans annual wholesale inflation slowed for the third straight month in June, reinforcing the Bank of Japans (BOJ) ...

Asian stock markets began Friday's session with modest gains, as a rally in global equities gained fresh momentum from strong ...

Japan's upper house election on Sunday could shake up politics, with rising prices and a populist party gaining ground.

TOKYO -- Japan's stubbornly high inflation and U.S. trade tariffs are casting a pall over both this month's upper house election race and the central bank's efforts to normalize monetary policy.

Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. It has stayed put despite headline and ...

While the cooling inflation trend strengthens the case for easing, sticky core inflation and cautious growth outlook may slow ...

Rising long-term Japanese government bond yields point to growing nervousness about the future – and not just inflation ...