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Global Market: Japan stock rally faces test as Middle East conflict clouds earnings outlookJapanese companies enter earnings season on a strong footing, but Middle East tensions pose risks to growth, inflation, and energy costs. W...
Uniqlo owner warns significant tariff impact, plans price hikesFast Retailing, Uniqlo's parent company, anticipates significant impact from rising U.S. tariffs later this year, planning to increase pric...
Price hikes help apparel market grow 15% in FY23While sales growth has breached pre-Covid levels, the segment could see demand recovery only during Diwali this year, according to the asso...
New Bank of Japan chief says no major rate hike on horizon"Japan is currently not in a situation where interest rates need to be significantly raised," Kazuo Ueda told reporters at his first press ...
Nintendo promises 10% pay hike even as it trims profit outlookThe hefty pay hike comes amid calls by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for Japanese companies to pay workers more as inflation takes hold in a...
Asia stocks hit 7-month high on China and CPI betsChina on Thursday reported consumer price falls in December and a larger-than-expected drop in factory gate prices - underscoring the weakn...
Japan's Nikkei hits 2-wk high ahead of U.S. CPI data, Fed meetThe Nikkei ended the day up 0.4% at 27,954.85, after hitting a high of 28,116.56, a level not seen since Dec. 1, but then gradually pared t...
Tokyo's Nikkei index ends lower on profit-takingThe Japanese government said Friday that core consumer prices rose 3.6 percent year-on-year in October, the highest level in four decades d...
Japanese shares rise on Wall Street gains, robust outlookWall Street closed higher on Friday in volatile trading to snap a four-session losing streak, as investors wrestled with a mixed jobs repor...
Tokyo shares close lower after US lossesThe US rate hikes have caused the yen to slide to its lowest level against the dollar in over three decades, while the Bank of Japan sticks...
Yen hits lowest level against dollar since 1990One dollar was worth 147.67 yen following the stronger-than-expected inflation number, which comes as Japan's central bank holds off from h...
Nikkei ends above key 27,000 level for first time in two weeksThe Reserve Bank of Australia may have slowed the pace of its interest rate hikes, but it's unclear whether the U.S. Federal Reserve will f...
Tokyo stocks close higher on US gainsIn Tokyo, share prices have been on a downward trend "since the release of the US CPI (consumer price index)" earlier this month, Resona Ba...
Japan's Nikkei hits 1-month closing low as chip makers tumbleU.S. stocks ended August with their fourth straight daily decline overnight, cementing their weakest performance for the month in seven yea...
Japan's Nikkei ends higher helped by chip stocks gainsThe benchmark index opened with small declines after Wall Street ended sharply lower Tuesday as a profit warning by Walmart dragged down re...
Japan's Nikkei sees worst day in 6 weeks, tracks Wall St lossesThe Nikkei share average ended 1.9% lower at 26,590.78 - the biggest percentage decline since March 11. The broader Topix lost 1.5% to 1,87...
Nikkei ends lower as Ukraine crisis, U.S. rate-hike bets weighFinancials were the Nikkei's worst performing sector, dropping 2.44%, as a pullback in global long-term bond yields cut the profit outlook.
Japan's Nikkei loses most in 3 weeks on Ukraine, U.S. inflation risksThe Nikkei share average lost 2.23% to close at 27,079.59, posting its biggest daily percentage drop since Jan. 27 and touching below the 2...
Nikkei slides as industrials fall on weak earnings, Fed worries simmerThe Nikkei cut some of its morning losses to end the day down 0.70% at 27,248.87, with a 0.99% drop making industrials the hardest hit sect...
Japanese shares give up gains on rising U.S. bond yields"Sentiment was weakened by rising U.S. Treasury yields. Investors thought the U.S. market would fall this evening," said Shoichi Arisawa, g...