The COVID-19 pandemic is fueling a surge in currency trading by retail investors, who are discovering that working from home means they can moonlight in the market during the daytime. Trading volume in margin accounts held by individuals more than doubled last month, just as ...

The last quarter of 2019 has been painful for yen bulls, but if history is any guide, good times may be just around the corner. January has typically proved to be a favorable month for Japan's currency, bringing gains against the dollar in seven of ...

Popular tales of "Mrs. Watanabe" — the canny Japanese housewife who dabbles in currency trading in between school runs and shopping — barely begin to tell the story of the nation's retail traders in the foreign exchange market. With almost 800,000 active forex accounts, Japan ...

Global financial turmoil is turning up the heat on the Bank of Japan, raising the question of how much pain it can take before it is forced to act. The BOJ faces two market-driven problems as the U.S.-China trade war escalates — a strengthening yen ...

For all the frenzy over the Bank of Japan's first policy tweak in almost two years, little seems to have changed for the nation's insurers. That's because the rise in long-end government bond yields seen after the central bank's July 31 decision has proved to ...

Like any good love affair, it has had its ups and downs. Having sold French sovereign debt for the fifth month in a row in March, Japanese investors may start to rekindle their interest, according to fund managers interviewed by Bloomberg including Nissay Asset Management ...