when traders would borrow the yen with its low interest rates to buy other assets like tech stocks. Some say the trade helped boost tech stocks this year. The Bank of Japan, which ended its ...

Hence, some follow-through weakness below the 154.00 mark, towards retesting a multi-week low around the 153.70 region touched on Monday, looks like a distinct possibility. On the flip side, attempted ...

Metaplanet issued 21 million shares through 0% discount moving strike warrants raising 116 billion yen ($745 million) to ...

Investment trusts that cater to Japanese individuals bought a net ¥10.4 trillion of overseas equities and funds last year.

As a tech stock rout and U.S. dollar swings driven by President Donald Trump's tariff threats send markets into a tailspin, ...

In both cases, authorities buy or sell yen, usually against the dollar. The Ministry of Finance decides when to step in and the Bank of Japan acts as its agent. The decision is highly political ...

That followed a plunge to 128.90 yen per dollar in trading a day earlier on the New York foreign exchange market. On the morning of April 20, the Bank of Japan announced it would offer to buy an ...