Japan's annual interest payments on government debt could surge more than 50% over the next few years, government estimates ...

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index gained 0.3% to 40,074.87 after the central bank raised its benchmark rate to about 0.5% from 0.25%, ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis and revised up its ...

Financial Group Inc., Japan's largest bank by market value, closed at a record high, fueled by optimism for increased lending ...

The Bank of Japan will wrap up its monetary policy meeting on Friday and then announce its decision on interest rates, highlighting a ...

The Bank of Japan ... policy interest rates for the first time in 17 years. Specifically, it will increase the uncollateralized overnight call rate--a rate commercial banks charge on loans to ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar weakened against the yen on Thursday, as softer-than-expected U.S. economic data and growing confidence for a Bank of Japan interest-rate hike sent it tumbling ...

China left benchmark lending rates unchanged for a third consecutive month, as expected, as a weakening yuan has limited ...

In this case, the lender is the one taking the risk of defaulting on the loan. As strange as ... and turn to the desperate measure of negative interest rates. Negative interest rates are an ...

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(Alliance News) - Stocks were called to open higher in London on Friday morning, although UK consumer confidence has reportedly suffered a steep fall in recent weeks.