A Reuters poll last month showed a majority of economists expect another rate hike by year-end. Swap rates indicate a 54% chance the BOJ will raise rates to 0.75% in October and a 71% chance in ...

The Nikkei 225 Index pulled back last week as market participants focused on key Japanese earnings and the BoJ interest rate ...

TRADING activity on the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) partially recovered in the first half of 2025, with the main market’s ...

The July jobs report reveals a sharp hiring deceleration with major downward revisions to previous months. Click here to read ...

The first would be the release of the US GDP advance rate for Q2. The rate showed that the US economy in the past quarter grew at a faster than expected pace, which tended to lift the US macroeconomic ...

Nearly 70 countries face Trump’s import duties that were due to come into force on August 1; most were delayed at the last ...

Bank of Japan watchers brought forward their forecast for when they expect the next interest rate hike, after clarity over ...

US President Trump's tariffs remain a key concern shaping monetary decisions worldwide. Both the Bank of Japan and the US ...

Even if they weren’t at a construction site, hard hats would have been advisable for US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell last week. Investors may need ...

Profits of Japanese firms are likely to fall this year because of U.S. tariffs, leading them to downgrade capital expenditure ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated demands for interest rate cuts will only cause confusion. It is important for the U.S. Federal Reserve Board to continue to implement its policies without being ...