Blackstone Inc. has hired former Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. executive Muneya Taniguchi as vice chairman of Japan to ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will size up the need to raise interest rates on Friday amid heightened expectations of a hike — and barring a market shock triggered by Donald Trump’s first ...

The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates on Friday barring any market shocks when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a move that would lift short-term borrowing costs to ...

The Bank of Japan raised rates by 0.25%, a sharp departure from its historically easy money policies, knocking investors back on their heels.

On one side were the councilors who voted 5-0 to buy the former Bank of America building downtown in the hopes of attracting business, preferablyin the food and beverage industry. On the other side ...

For years, mortgages in Japan have been nearly cost free. Homeowners are now bracing for that to change. Japan’s central bank had maintained benchmark interest rates near zero since the mid-1990s.

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates to levels unseen in 15 years and unveiled a detailed plan to slow its massive bond buying, taking another step towards phasing out a decade of huge stimulus.

The pundits were certain quantitative easing was done when Kazuo Ueda took the helm at the Bank of Japan. ... Kuroda, after all, spent 10 years building up a titanically large BOJ balance sheet.

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan March 18, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo.

Hiroshima resident Yasuhiro Nanba, 86, can explain all the traces left behind by the 1945 atomic explosion on the building in the city that used to be a Bank of Japan branch.

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Japanese national flag waves at the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan March 18, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo ...

The Japanese national flag waves at the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan, on March 18. The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates on Friday barring any market shocks when U.S ...