By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat the yen’s fresh declines driven by market expectations that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates[...]
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July 3, 2023
What would Japanese intervention to boost the weak yen look like?
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat a continued yen fall driven by market expectations that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates ultra-low[...]
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South Korea consumer inflation hits 21-month low
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s consumer inflation slowed more than expected and hit a 21-month low, official data showed on Tuesday, weighed by falling oil and agricultural product prices. The c[...]
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Marketmind: Australia rate decision on a knife edge
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. The Reserve Bank of Australia takes center stage on Tuesday, with the con[...]
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New Zealand 2nd qtr business confidence continues to improve but still downbeat –think-tank
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s business confidence in the second quarter continued to pick up from low levels but firms remain downbeat, a private think tank said on[...]
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BofA, Citi ask Fed to clarify bank stress test results
By Saeed Azhar NEW YORK (Reuters) -Bank of America and Citigroup said on Monday they had begun a dialogue with the Federal Reserve to understand differing results between the central bank’s stre[...]
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Bankruptcy filings surge in first half of 2023 in US – Epiq
(Reuters) – U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy filings jumped 68% in the first half of 2023 from a year earlier, Epiq Bankruptcy, a provider of U.S. bankruptcy filing data, said on Monday. SVB Financial[...]
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Wall St ends slightly higher in shortened session, Tesla jumps
By Lewis Krauskopf, Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes ended with slim gains in a holiday-shortened session on Monday, helped by a surge in Te[...]
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Stocks edge higher with Treasury yields in holiday-shortened session
By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street stock indexes ended Monday’s shorter session up slightly along with U.S. Treasury yields, as investors weighed up a mixed bag of economic d[...]
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