In recent shareholder letters, we have been highlighting market anecdotes illustrating speculative behavior across financial ...

The US dollar has come back better bid today. It is firmer against all the G10 currencies. The proximate cause has been ...

Yet despite these long-standing issues, inflation in Japan remains stubbornly high — and surprisingly, rice prices are ...

Tokyos consumer inflation surged in April, reinforcing expectations that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) may raise interest rates ...

Core inflation in Japan's capital accelerated to a two-year high in April on surging food costs, making the central bank's ...

The Tokyo core CPI rose above 3% for the first time since July 2023. The higher reading reflected a reduction in government ...

Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area accelerated as many Japanese companies raised prices of products and ...

Japan's population fell to a record low in 2024 following a steep decline in the birth rate, according to government data. The population of the world's fourth-largest economy fell to 120.3 ...

as investors continued to unwind positions they had made for the Bank of Japan’s early interest rate hikes. The 10-year JGB yield fell 1.5 basis points (bps) to 1.33%. “The market is doing the ...

The BOJ ended a radical stimulus programme last year and raised interest rates to 0.5 per cent in January on the view Japan was on the cusp of sustainably achieving its 2 per cent inflation target.

In other words, the Fed might be wrong in fearing stagflation and will soon have a leeway to cut rates. Inflation breakevens ... the disinflation shown in these charts will help encourage the ...

TOKYO (Reuters ... consumer inflation above the BOJ's 2% target for nearly three years, underpinning market expectations the central bank will continue increasing interest rates from the ...