Inflation-adjusted real wages, a key determinant of households' purchasing power, slumped 1.8% in April from a year earlier ...

In 2008, the crisis began at the edges — in subprime loans, shadow banking, and undercapitalized financial institutions. That periphery has since been ringfenced with regulation, stress tests, capital ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan currently has no plan to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC) but must continue innovating its ...

The problem isn’t only the trillions owed. It’s that no modern country has become this indebted absent a crisis.

KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - Media OutReach Newswire - 30 May 2025 - Traders and investors alike are unnerved by the recent turbulence in the bond markets. After Moody's—a major rating agency—downgraded U ...

He was the No. 2 at the Federal Reserve and the I.M.F. during periods of economic turmoil, and he mentored future economic ...

BANK of Jamaica (BOJ) governor Richard Byles has issued a stark warning that America’s spiralling budget deficits now present ...

Consumer prices excluding fresh food in the Tokyo metropolitan area rose 3.6% in May from a year earlier, up from April's 3.4% increase, driven by continued food price gains. Tokyo CPI is viewed as an ...

Japanese government data released Friday present a mixed picture of rising inflation and sluggish industrial activity.

TOKYO] NTT Docomo is buying SBI Holdings’ online bank in a 420 billion yen (S$3.7 billion) deal to shore up the Japanese ...