We believe Mercari has a narrow economic moat, benefiting from the network effect of being the largest C2C marketplace app in Japan. Mercari currently has over 23 million monthly active users, well ...

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labour shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak economic activity, a justification it may use to lift interest rates beyond ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell may be breathing easier now that the Trump administration intends to focus on the 10-year Treasury yield, instead of rate cuts, to lower borrowing costs. But for ...

The most likely one percent range for the 3-month yield in ten years is unchanged from last week: 0% to 1%. The most likely one percent range for the 5-year yield four and one-half years forward is 1% ...

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Mitsubishi Corp (TSE: 8058) has taken a 52.2 billion yen ($342.4 million) impairment charge on its offshore wind projects, ...

Japan has “completely” ended deflation and it’s absolutely natural for the central bank to proceed with rate hikes to ...

Inflationary risks were building up as companies continue to pass on rising raw material and labour costs, which required lifting the BOJ's policy rate to levels deemed neutral to the economy ...

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates to at least 1% by the second half of the fiscal year beginning in April, hawkish board member Naoki Tamura said on Thursday, remarks that pushed up ...