The Bank of Japan maintains its key policy rate, while the US Federal Reserve makes its first cut in four and a half years.

Wall Street closed flat on Friday, hovering near the previous session's record-high close for the Dow and S&P 500, while the ...

U.S. stocks drifted around their all-time highs, as a record-setting week for Wall Street closed on a quieter note.

March 2024, is one of Japan’s Big Three banking groups. Compared with its two megabank rivals, SMFG has a greater focus on retail customers and small and medium-size enterprises rather than large ...

The other big potential threat is a U.S. recession. A soft landing for the economy is the central case, but a deeper slowdown ...

US and European stock markets retreated on Friday following a rally and records triggered by a jumbo US interest rate cut ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda warned about uncertainties related to the global economic outlook at a press conference ...

U.S. stocks are drifting in early trading after leaping to records the day before as part of a worldwide rally ...

The Bank of Japan maintained its benchmark rate on Friday after two hikes this year and signalled that the policy normalization will ...

There was a bit of nervousness ahead of the Bank of Japan's Friday policy decision. It will take investors awhile to forget the day in late July when the central bank's interest-rate hike unwound the ...