TOKYO – The Bank of Japan must maintain current monetary stimulus to create sustainable increases in prices, corporate profits, jobs and wages, its deputy governor said on Tuesday, dismissing speculation about an early exit from accommodative settings. With inflation in Japan far below levels in the United States and elsewhere, the BOJ is lagging well behind other major central banks in dialing back crisis-mode stimulus. However, surging global commodity prices and the weakening yen have…
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TOKYO – Japan said on Tuesday it would start conducting “test tourism” in the form of limited package tours in May as a way of gathering information prior to a full re-opening of the country to tourism. Though tourism was a major pillar of Japan’s economy, tourists have not been permitted to enter since it adopted strict border controls in 2020 at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Regulations have been loosened slightly to allow…
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– Aircraft lessor SMBC Aviation Capital said on Monday it had reached an agreement to buy rival Dublin-based Goshawk Aviation for $6.7 billion in enterprise value.
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– Gold prices fell more than 1% to their lowest in 3-1/2 months on Monday as elevated bond yields and a firmer U.S. dollar dampened bullion demand, even as riskier assets dropped after grim China economic data. A stronger dollar makes gold expensive for overseas buyers, while higher Treasury yields raise the opportunity cost of holding zero-yield bullion. Spot gold was down 0.7% at $1,798.80 per ounce as of 0920 GMT, after hitting its lowest…
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TOKYO – Glassdoor owner Recruit Holdings says it wants to have women in 50% of its senior executive and managerial roles within 10 years – a rare pledge in a country where men dominate the top echelons of companies, politics and the civil service. The push for more women at the upper levels of Japan’s largest staffing agency is part of a diversity drive to ensure a flow of bright business ideas, said Chief Operations…
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TOKYO – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Monday that currencies should move stably, reflecting economic fundamentals, because excess volatility such as seen recently would make it hard to make business plans. “Excess volatility in a short term as seen recently is undesirable,” Kuroda told Japan’s upper house of parliament. He would keep close watch on the impact of currency moves on Japan’s economy and prices, he said.
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TOKYO – Japan needs a faster “third arrow” growth strategy focussing on promoting a carbon-neutral society, including by creating a financial hub in Tokyo for Asian firms aiming to go green, said Hiroshi Nakaso, considered a front-runner to be the country’s next central bank chief. Massive monetary and fiscal stimulus deployed in 2013 as the first two “arrows” of then-premier Shinzo Abe’s “Abenomics” policies reflated the economy. But the third, structural reform, barely took flight,…
"Nakaso, candidate to head BOJ, calls for faster green growth strategy"
– Shanghai set out plans on Monday for the return of more normal life from June 1 and the end of a painful COVID-19 lockdown that has lasted more than six weeks and contributed to a sharp slowdown in China’s economic activity. DEATHS AND INFECTIONS * Eikon users, see COVID-19: MacroVitals for a case tracker and summary of news. EUROPE * Russia will promptly consider any request from North Korea for COVID-19 vaccine supplies, Kremlin…
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TOKYO -Japan’s wholesale prices in April jumped 10% from the same month a year earlier, data showed on Monday, rising at a record rate as the Ukraine crisis and a weak yen pushed up the cost of energy and raw materials. The surge in the corporate goods price index (CGPI), which measures the price companies charge each other for their goods and services, marked the fastest year-on-year rise in a single month since comparable data…
"Japan wholesale prices hit record 10% as energy costs soar"
SEOUL -North Korea said on Sunday a total of 42 people had died as the country began its fourth day under a nationwide lockdown aimed at stopping the impoverished country’s first confirmed COVID-19 outbreak. On Thursday North Korea acknowledged for the first time a COVID outbreak and ordered the lockdowns. State news agency KCNA said the country was taking “swift state emergency measures” to control the epidemic. “All provinces, cities and counties of the country…
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