Japan's SBI Shinsei Bank said Tuesday it will pay back 100 billion yen ($644 million) it received in a government bailout by the end of March. SBI Shinsei is the only major Japanese lender that has ...

Insight into Japan's financial market trends, including exchange rates, JGB term premiums, probability of yield inversions & ...

The simulation with U.S. Treasuries shows a yen/U.S. dollar exchange rate with a standard deviation of 12.23 one year forward ...

However, gains were capped by a rallying yen as traders ramped up bets that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will raise interest rates at its policy meeting next week. The broader Topix index was flat.

TIBOR stands for the Tokyo Interbank Offered Rate and is a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks offer to lend unsecured funds to other banks in the Japan wholesale money ...

Spending by foreign visitors to Japan exceeded 8 trillion yen for the first time in 2024, reaching 8.1395 trillion yen, according to preliminary statistics released by the Japanese Tourism Agency on ...

The yen gained 0.5 per cent against the dollar to hit 157.15 after Ueda’s remarks. The two-year Japanese government bond yield, which is sensitive to interest rate expectations, rose to 0.7 per ...

Japan has a lot of coin storage lockers. And sometimes things get left behind or abandoned. Collecting these forgotten items, is an entire job here in Japan, and today, we are tagging along to see ...

The dollar rose 0.26% against the yen to 157.89, with traders bracing for next week's Bank of Japan policy meeting, for which markets are pricing in 57% chance of a hike. Some analysts flagged ...

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Japan stepped into the currency market four times in 2024, spending almost $100 billion to prop up the yen. The last two interventions came in July when the yen crossed the 160 threshold against ...