The dollar edged higher on Friday, building on the previous day's gains as investors pared back riskier assets, prompting higher-yielding currencies such as the Australian dollar to lose their appeal.
Friday, November 20, 2009 (New Delhi) The key benchmark indices snapped last two days' losses, taking cue from higher European stocks. Turnover in NSE's futures & options (F&O) segment surged to Rs 98,015.39 crore from Rs...
• Finance minister says falling prices prompt 'sense of crisis' • Stagnant job market raises fears of double-dip recession Japan's fledgling recovery is under threat from falling prices, the government said today, as it...
The Bank of Japan held interest rates near zero amid mounting government pressure for it to fight deflation that could stunt the recovery from the country's worst postwar recession. Gov. Masaaki... Read more . . .
NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) The U.S. Army serviceman suspected of hitting a Japanese man with a car and killing him earlier this month in Okinawa has effectively admitted his involvement in the... Read more . . .
Saturday 21st November, 03:53 AM JST NAHA — U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos plans to visit Okinawa Prefecture on Nov 30 for talks with Gov Hirokazu Nakaima on the relocation of a U.S. Marine airfield, sources close to the...
analysis Shoplifting, by both men and women, seems to be on the rise in large stores and popular markets in Abuja today. Interestingly, at the Exclusive stores, one of the Federal Capital Territory's air conditioned shopping...
06th November FUKUSHIMA — Police on Thursday arrested a 68-year-old man after he stood on the road and flashed a female plainclothes police officer who was riding in an unmarked patrol car in Nihonmatsu city, Fukushima...
TOKYO, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said on Friday there was no big gap in the views of the central bank and the government that the country is experiencing sustained price falls. Shirakawa also...
Its easy-money policy has Asia worried. But Bernanke says fears of a speculative surge are overblown America's super-easy monetary policy has drawn a blast of criticism lately from the high and mighty of Asian finance....