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Japan is closely watching currency movements and is ready to take all necessary steps, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki says, amid market caution about intervention to slow the yen's fall to 34-year lows against the U.S. dollar.

Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki says there is no change "at all" in the government's stance that it will act appropriately with regard to the yen's value after it slipped past 155 to the U.S. dollar.

From the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund Spring meetings in Washington, Sitharaman shared her views on India’s economic challenges, the lack of jobs, the Adani-Hindenberg saga and the government’s weak progress on privatization. Below are edited excerpts and the video conversation.

UN Under-Secretary-General Alisjahbana Calls On DPM Shrestha And Finance Minister Dr. Mahat

Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Wednesday took a veiled jibe at the Centre for its Union Budget presented in the Parliament and said that it should be for the country instead of being for a party. Budget 2023: BSP Chief Mayawati Takes Jibe at Centre, Says ‘Better if Budget Is More for Country Than a Party’.

The EV industry body said market trends suggest that e-mobility, particularly electric two-wheelers (E2W) has the potential to continue growing once it reaches 20 per cent of the total two-wheeler market.

Macro-economic stability will come with IMF program, says Miftah

The role of media in shaping public opinion is well-established. As Irving Wallace portayed in his fiction, ‘The Almighty’, media can be a saviour or a destroyer of sorts at the hands of its masters – from creating new heroes out of nowhere (Anna Hazare  and Bilkis Begum to  Kanaiah Kumar) to toppling seemingly powerful governments (Nixon and the watergate scandal, Rajiv Gandhi and the Bofors scandal).  Is the Fourth Estate taking its role seriously in the developing world, especially ...

Whose advice should Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman follow - RBI or Chief Economic Advisor? The RBI working paper co-authored by RBI Deputy Governor Michael Debabrata Patra,  who is also a member of the six-member monetary policy committee has recommended that maintaining the inflation target at 4 per cent is appropriate for the country Anand Adhikari | February 19, 2021 | Updated 20:05 IST Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman In a span of just a month, there are two reports on inflation b...

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