Sanae Takaichi is the most popular choice among stock market pros to become Japan's next leader, according to a monthly ...

TOKYO -- The ruling party election likely to choose Japan's next prime minister is shaping up to be a three-way race among ...

The visit by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to South Korea earlier this month created a few ripples. No major ...

Markets appear happy, for now, that the Fed’s half-point rate cut will help avert a U.S. recession, and so a global one.

One too many shidos for China's Jing Tang gives Miku Takaichi of Japan a simple golden score victory in the women's ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is expected to keep its short-term interest rate target between 0.15% and 0.25% on Friday, following ...

More interest rate cuts are set to come in Switzerland and Sweden after a supersized Federal Reserve rate move, with U.S.

The central bank on Friday kept the uncollateralized overnight call rate steady at 0.25% following a two-day meeting of its ...

The Bank of Japan kept policy unchanged Friday as it avoided a repetition of the market meltdown that followed its July rate ...

Rayne Beau, a lost cat, managed to travel 800 miles back home after vanishing during a camping trip in Yellowstone National Park. Found exhausted in Roseville, California, he was reunited with his ...

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