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Blog Blog Blog Blog 14 Apr, 2021 Author Yuzo Yamaguchi As returns-hungry Japanese banks may lend or invest even more abroad after a record year of 2020, the lenders face rising risk of defaults and market volatility in their growing overseas operations, analysts warn. Japanese financial institutions have a long history of generating interest income and asset growth from operations outside their home market, which has been battered by a prolonged perio...

Blog Blog Blog Blog 7 Apr, 2021 Author Yuzo Yamaguchi More institutional investors in Japan will likely join Nippon Life Insurance Co. in dialing up pressure on their portfolio companies to go greener more aggressively, experts say, after the nations largest life insurer went as far as threatening to off-load investments that are not tackling emissions adequately. Nippon Life, also the third-largest Asian institutional investor by assets under managem...

Feb 15, 2021 Tokyo share prices are likely to continue rising after the Nikkei index hit the 30,000 threshold Monday, a level not seen since the asset-inflated bubble economy period, as more businesses recover from the coronavirus pandemic fallout. With major Japanese firms upgrading their earnings outlooks for the year through March, some analysts forecast the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average will rise as high as 34,000 by the end of this year. On Monday, the Nikkei ended up 564.08 poin...

Nikkei likely to rise beyond 30,000 as businesses recover from pandemic Feb. 16 03:00 am JST Feb. 23 | 12:22 am JST TOKYO The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © KYODO ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. bubble. far from this "nikkei optimism"... ( +0 / -0 ) Feb. 16 01:17 pm JST All this is is monetary and fiscal stimulus. The real economy is ...

The meeting was held at a time of growing concern over the economy as the U.S. dollar fell to the lower ¥82 range in September 2010.

Dec 30, 2020 Tokyo stocks are likely to climb in 2021 with progress in global COVID-19 vaccinations helping to improve the business climate and Japan’s accommodative monetary policies remaining in place. Analysts forecast the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei stock average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which finished 2020 trading Wednesday at 27,444.17 — the highest year-end close since 1989 — will move between 21,000 and 30,500 in 2021. “In the first half of 2021, the stock market wil...

The Market the Central Bank Bought The Bank of Japan becomes the country’s largest stockholder. Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot and Mary OGrady on identity politics and corporate boards. Image: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images By Dec. 15, 2020 6:25 pm ET The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting this week, and we’ll learn Wednesday if it will expand its purchases of Treasurys and private bonds. Which makes it a good moment to point out that the ...

2020-12-15 11:05:27 GMT2020-12-15 19:05:27(Beijing Time) Xinhua English TOKYO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks ended lower Tuesday on concerns over the economic fallout from the governments abrupt planned suspension of its subsidized travel campaign over the year-end holiday period amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 44.60 points, or 0.17 percent, from Monday to close the day at 26,687.84 The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Toky...

Русский Tokyo, Dec. 13 (Jiji Press)--The Bank of Japan apparently became the largest stock investor in the country, a decade after starting purchases of exchange-traded funds as part of monetary easing, raising concerns about its influence on share prices. The central bank began ETF purchases in December 2010 under Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, first aiming to buy 450 billion yens worth of ETFs. But the program has since expanded gradually and an upper limit on its annual purchases reached...

As Citizens Suffer Central Banks Flush Trading Houses With Trillions, Ease Corporate Strains Central banks across the world have been increasing stimulus and letting inflation run high in order to combat the disastrous economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak response. The Bank of Japan has recently become the country’s largest stockholder and the European Central Bank is prepared to expand its colossal stimulus program. Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is...