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A worker places blank guitar picks into a tray at D'Addario's production facility in Farmingdale, New York, on July 10.
BUSINESS / Markets
Inside a U.S. guitar string-maker's strategy to navigate the trade war
While the company makes nearly all their music accessories in the U.S., their supply chain and distribution are global, with their biggest foreign market being Japan.
BUSINESS / Markets
Japanese bonds remain vulnerable as unpopular Ishiba holds on
Benchmark 10-year bonds fell only slightly as trading resumed in Tokyo, pushing yields up by 1.5 basis points.
BUSINESS / Markets
Europe’s cocoa slowdown highlights global chocolate struggle
Cocoa futures have more than doubled in the past two years and touched a record in December.
Jerome Powell, the embattled chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve, appears before a House committee in Washington on June 24.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 16, 2025
Wary that Fed chief may be ousted, investors protect portfolios from inflation risk
By Carolina Mandl, Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Matt Tracy
A Fed chief warmer to cutting rates could have a mixed effect on equities but could weaken the U.S. dollar, increase volatility in the Treasurys market and raise longer-term rates.
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 15, 2025
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
By Kazuaki Nagata
The Nikkei 225 is down about 6% from its peak, hit in July 2024.
Bottles of Chianti at the international wine and spirits fair Vinitaly in Verona, Italy, on April 6
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 15, 2025
Italy's Chianti wine makers eye South America, Asia amid U.S. tariff threat
Italy currently exports more wine to the U.S. than any other country, but producers are increasingly looking to diversify amid the trade uncertainty.
Trading volumes in dollar-yen call options, which gain in value if the yen depreciates against the dollar, more than doubled those of put options on July 11.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 14, 2025
Yen traders revamp option bets ahead of Japan election
By David Finnerty
Expectations that the election outcome may pave the way for additional fiscal stimulus have already started to drive long-term Japanese yields higher.
A container ship in Cebu City, the Philippines. The Philippines sent some $14.1 billion of goods to the U.S. last year.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 10, 2025
Trump unveils new tariff rates, including 50% levy on Brazil
By Hadriana Lowenkron
Trump cited the treatment of Jair Bolsonaro — Brazil's former populist president — calling on authorities to drop charges against him over an alleged coup attempt.
U.S. President Donald Trump (center) with Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the White House on Tuesday
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 9, 2025
Trump vows no tariff extension and hardens threats on copper and drugs
By Stephanie Lai
The U.S. president stresses he would not offer additional extensions on country-specific levies set to now hit in early August.
Maria Tyabut shows off the food stored in her new Chinese-made refrigerator while her husband Sergei Duzhikov holds their 8-month-old daughter, Yekaterina, at their apartment in the Moscow suburb of Mytishchi on June 17.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 7, 2025
Sanctions? No big deal, say middle-class Russian couple
By Victoria LOGUINOVA-YAKOVLEVA
They drive a Chinese car, vacation in Venezuela and buy "Camembert" cheese made in Russia.

Japan and U.S. reach tariff deal with ‘reciprocal’ rate at 15%
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Japan on Tuesday, saying the agreement would create "hundreds of thousands of jobs."
Ishiba denies reports he will resign next month, leaving his fate unclear
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba looks on after meeting with the Liberal Democratic Party executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan and U.S. both claim win in surprise 11th-hour tariff deal
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan chief tariff negotiator, in Tokyo
The rise of AI companionship in a lonely Japan
In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
Rice grain-sized earphone may have been used to cheat on TOEIC English test
A pendant-shaped relay device suspected to have been used to cheat on the TOEIC English proficiency test, in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Tuesday
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.
Induction of Ichiro has Cooperstown fretfully preparing
Ichiro Suzuki will soon become the first Japanese player to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
JT picks: What not to miss at Fuji Rock 2025
Fuji Rock Festival turns the green slopes of Niigata Prefecture’s Naeba Ski Resort into a summer escape that offers soundtracks for every mood.
Japan’s top brands get tied up in the great sunscreen debate
A coral reef in Okinawa in July 2022. Some jurisdictions around the world have moved to ban certain sunscreens in a bid to protect coral reefs, but some say the impact on reefs is far from clear.
Pentagon looks to unleash ‘military drone dominance’
U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth hosts a drone demonstration at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, on July 10.

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In 2020, 38% of all households were single-person. That figure is projected to rise to 44.3% by 2050.
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