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BUSINESS / Economy
Feb 13, 2017
Trump-Abe rapport won't stop yen from passing 100, JPMorgan says
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's success in avoiding any clash over exchange rates with U.S. President Donald Trump at a summit meeting hasn't resolved underlying conflict, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 6, 2017
A year later, Japan banks brave negative rates thanks in part to Trump
Japan's biggest banks have navigated through a year of negative interest rates and choppy financial markets with their profits intact, thanks at least in part to Donald Trump.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2017
Trump's irrational currency remarks
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should correct U.S. President Donald Trump's misguided views on Japan's currency policy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 31, 2017
'Fear gauge' up as Trump travel curbs send stocks, dollar down sharply
Major world equity markets fell on Monday and the dollar slipped against the safe-haven yen after new U.S. immigration curbs stirred concerns about the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's policies on global trade and the economy.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 18, 2017
Trump's options for weakening dollar extend far beyond tweeting
Donald Trump may have a point: the dollar is indeed strong. Judging from the Federal Reserve's own trade-weighted dollar index, the U.S. currency is now around 7 percent above its four-decade average.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 13, 2017
Why the bulls are wrong about the yen's rise
The yen has started 2017 strongly, but the Bank of Japan is likely to stick with its super-loose money program rather than dismantle it.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 11, 2017
Analyst who got 2016 rate right now sees yen weakening to 125
The strategist who defied Japan's biggest investors to correctly predict the yen's weakness in 2016 is forecasting more losses for the currency in the new year.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 4, 2017
Economists see growth on horizon for 2017
Economists say growth is expected on the back of the weak yen and due to government steps to stimulate sluggish consumption.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 22, 2016
Trump tantrum a double-edged sword for Japan
The yen's 17 percent slump is a win for Japan's exporters, but it may take the onus off Abe to deliver tough reforms.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 20, 2016
Bank of Japan caps tumultuous year with upgrade to outlook
The Bank of Japan closed a tumultuous year for monetary policy with an upgrade to its assessment of the economy while keeping its yield-curve and asset-purchase programs unchanged.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Dec 19, 2016
Japan's volatile year in business: negative rates, Brexit and Trump
For investors in Japan's markets this year, it's been a case of one shock after the next in a pattern that might have prepared them well for the era of Donald Trump and his reputation for the unexpected.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Dec 6, 2016
Trump's stimulus plan may give Japan a welcome tailwind in 2017
For now, the global winds are at Japan's back.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 18, 2016
Trump win gives Kuroda breathing room, ex-BOJ executive says
Donald Trump's election win has given Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda room to breathe by easing concerns that the yen will strengthen, a former BOJ executive says.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 16, 2016
Battered yen faces new reality: Trump reflationary pressure
The yen, jolted in a 750-plus point range against the dollar in the week since Donald Trump's presidential win, could fall back toward a February low of ¥115 on prospects of rapid U.S. interest rate increases.
BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 10, 2016
'Mr. Yen' says Japan's currency could rise to 90 to the dollar by May on Trump win
The yen may strengthen to 90 per dollar within six months of Donald Trump's election, former Japanese top currency official Eisuke Sakakibara said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Nov 10, 2016
Abenomics hits new hurdle as Trump win roils outlook
The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement was expected to spark the structural reforms long promised under Abenomics, but Donald Trump's victory has all but doomed it.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 23, 2016
Fresh warning against excessive yen rises issued
Authorities are ready to act against excessive yen rises, the government's top spokesman said Friday, issuing a fresh warning to markets against recent yen gains that could hurt the country's export-reliant economy.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 30, 2016
Finance Ministry vs. the currency speculators
The Finance Ministry remains hesitant to back its tough talk with action, not least because of U.S. disapproval of supposed 'currency manipulation.'
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2016
Marilyn Monroe's Tokyo honeymoon spot frets over impact of yen rise
Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, the luxury inn that counts Marilyn Monroe among past guests, raised room rates last year to levels it last charged before the bubble economy imploded in the early 1990s. A surging yen now threatens those gains.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 25, 2016
As Abenomics loses shine, Japan's shoppers seek bargains
Three years of Abenomics, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's bold stimulus program, has failed to dislodge a deflationary mindset among businesses and consumers.

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