The Bank of Japan on Friday raised its policy interest rate 25 basis points from 0.25% to 0.5%, putting it at its highest ...

Meanwhile in Asia, the Bank of Japan has hiked interest rates by 25 basis points ... GfK's Consumer Confidence Index fell by five points to minus 22 in January, with all measures that make up the ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to the highest level ... Research group GfK's measure of consumer confidence slipped to minus 22 in January from minus 17 in December, below ...

External demand, or exports minus imports ... radical stimulus in March and raised short-term interest rates to 0.25% in July on the view Japan was progressing towards sustainably achieving ...

The central bank raised interest rates earlier this year for the first time since 2007, but only to a range of zero to 0.1% from minus 0.1%. “The Japanese central bank’s stance will similarly ...

Josh Younger is a lecturer at Columbia Law School and a former JPMorgan analyst. Brad Setser is a senior fellow at the ...

Starting Saturday, cold air from Siberia, Russia, will sweep across large parts of Mongolia, bringing overnight temperatures that could exceed minus 40 degrees Celsius, the weather agency said in a ...

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 ...

The US dollar weakened against the yen on Thursday, as softer-than-expected US economic data and growing confidence for a Bank of Japan interest-rate hike ... a reading of minus 5.