The yen is on track for its fourth straight weekly gain against the dollar as spending data on Friday added to signs that the ...

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labor shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

Nada Choueiri, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Asia-Pacific Department and its mission chief for ...

After three decades of near-zero inflation, there are signs that Japan’s economy can sustainably converge to a new equilibrium. Inflation has surpassed the Bank of Japan’s 2-percent target for over ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates again this year and see borrowing costs reach levels deemed neutral to ...

The yen climbed to a nine-week high as market players piled on bets for more interest rate hikes in Japan this year, while ...

Japanese household spending rose for the first time in five months in year-on-year terms in December and at a much ...

Consumer spending climbed 2.7% in December from a year earlier, data from the internal affairs ministry showed on Friday, ...

AUD/USD extends its consolidative price move and remains below the 0.6300 mark on Friday amid mixed cues. Bets that the RBA ...

Japan's upcoming spring wage discussions, also known as the "shunto" negotiations, will be in focus for investors watching the BOJ's interest rate moves. The negotiations will start some time in ...

The more President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on the U.S.’s trading partners, the more the worry of another inflation ...