The dollar weakened after Moody’s cut the U.S.’s long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings to Aa1 from Aaa, on worries about large fiscal deficits and growing debt costs.

In 2024, 720,988 babies were born in the country, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline in child births.

Mizuho Has More of a Focus on Large Corporate Borrowers Than Some Other Japanese Banks ...

HONG KONG — Shares were mixed Friday in Asia after Wall Street drifted higher as reports suggested the Federal Reserve may ...

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato signaled his intent to hold talks with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to address growing concerns over foreign exchange volatility, stressing that ...

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday that he would seek to discuss foreign exchange issues with U.S.

The Tokyo Exchange-listed Japanese firm Remixpoint has used its balance sheet to buy another $3.4 million worth of Bitcoin ...

Asian shares and U.S. futures slipped Thursday after U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed close on Wall Street. Oil prices fell ...

The USD/JPY outlook shows a stronger yen due to a growing divergence in policy outlooks between the Fed and the Bank of Japan ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, with a 7.2% share of domestic loans and 9.0% of deposits as of March 2024, is one of Japan’s Big Three banking groups. Compared with its two megabank rivals, SMFG has ...