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Greensill Capital
Lex Greensill sues UK government over ‘misuse of private information’
...At one point he had a desk and security pass within the Cabinet Office, according to the Boardman review into Greensill Capital and its ties to government....
March 5, 2024
Global Economy
When will the Bank of Japan next raise interest rates?
...10-year Japanese government bond yield....
April 21, 2024
Free LunchMartin Sandbu
Japan will remain the new normal Premium content
...rate on the shortest-term government securities)....
March 21, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The pursuit of happiness
...These drivers of fulfilment are a far better basis for policy. An equivalent approach is to see the role of government as reducing the causes of unhappiness....
March 22, 2024
FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
Bank of Japan ditches negative rates
...Microsoft has hired the co-founder of Google’s DeepMind, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, and leading European and UK artificial intelligence start-ups have been lobbied...
March 20, 2024
LexBank of Japan
Bank of Japan’s historic shift will boost local lenders Premium content
...The Bank of Japan signalled the beginning of an end to its ultra-loose monetary policy by also removing its yield curve controls, a policy that caps the yields of 10-year Japanese government bonds....
March 19, 2024
Bank of Japan
Will the Bank of Japan finally raise interest rates?
...The Japanese central bank is also expected formally to abandon its policy of capping the yields of 10-year Japanese government bonds, although analysts believe it is likely to stress that it will continue...
March 17, 2024
Europe Express
What Bulgaria’s government collapse means for the rest of the EU Premium content
...In February the Dutch government accused China of hacking into a military network last year....
March 27, 2024
News updates from April 12: ECB keeps interest rates on hold; OJ Simpson dies aged 76
Japan’s population falls by almost 100 people per hour
...The population of under-15s in Japan now stands at a record low of 11.4 per cent of the overall population, while the number of over-75s stands at a record high of 16.1 per cent....
April 12, 2024
Paul Killik
Why buying company shares has gone out of fashion
...Another blow for the retail investor community came with the government’s legislation on the rights of nominee holders at the implementation of Crest, an electronic settlement system, in 1996....
April 5, 2024
Leo Lewis
Who owns Japan’s hoard of corporate art?
...Circumstances look primed to force the issue but is DIC — or Japan at large — ready to think of the art held by the company as the property of shareholders?...
April 11, 2024
Martin Wolf
The tree of debt must stop growing
...Some economists seem to believe that the demand for a sovereign’s money is infinite: so long as there is some slack in the economy, the government can keep printing....
April 9, 2024
Japanese society
Japan’s native population declines at record rate as births plunge
...The native population of Japan is falling at a rate of almost 100 people an hour despite intensified efforts by the government to raise the nation’s low fertility rate....
April 12, 2024
Instant InsightRobin Harding
The big test is yet to come for the Bank of Japan
...Since the BoJ is unlikely to raise rates much, action on the other side of the Pacific is more likely to narrow the yawning gulf in yields between US Treasuries and Japanese government bonds....
March 19, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
The Bank of Japan’s tricky path to normalisation
...International portfolio investments were over $4tn at the end of 2023. Japan is the largest foreign holder of US government debt....
March 20, 2024
News updates from March 19: Bank of Japan ends negative rate era; Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder
Japan’s central bank ends era of negative interest rates
...The central bank will continue with roughly the current amount of Japanese government bond purchases....
March 19, 2024
Gideon Rachman
Japan doubles down on the US alliance as China looms
...The Kishida government sees that the conflict has pushed Beijing and Moscow closer together. Russia and China conducted a joint bomber flight over the Sea of Japan in December....
April 8, 2024
Yen
Japan steps up intervention warnings as yen slides to weakest level since 1990
...The currency dropped to a low of ¥151.94 against the dollar during morning trading, with investors defying two days of intensifying attempts by the Japanese government to slow further yen declines....
March 27, 2024
Special ReportFT High-Growth Companies Asia-Pacific
Japan’s start-up spirit awakens
...Angela Lai, head of Asia-Pacific at Preqin, says: “Government policies have been supportive in recent years to VCs....
April 3, 2024
Yen
End of negative interest rates in Japan raises threat of yen volatility
...The end of negative interest rates in Japan threatens to bring a new era of volatility for the yen, denting some of its allure to international investors and foreign governments seeking a reliable vehicle...
March 21, 2024
News updates from March 12: US House votes through bill to ban TikTok; Geert Wilders announces he will not be Netherlands PM
Japan’s Space One Kairos rocket explodes seconds after launch
...Live television footage showed the solid-fuel Kairos rocket launching from the Kii Space Port in western Japan’s Wakayama prefecture, followed by an explosion soon after, releasing clouds of vapour and smoke...
March 13, 2024
Japanese politics & policy
Japan relaxes defence export rules to allow sales of new fighter jet
...Under a deal reached between both parties this month, the government will allow the transfer of the new fighter jet to 15 countries that have signed defence equipment transfer agreements with Japan, including...
March 26, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Nigeria’s kidnapping racket is a symptom of a failing state
...The discovery of oil did not help, transforming the business of government into divvying up rent, not creating wealth....
March 12, 2024
UK economy
The Bank of England is misusing its fiscal powers
...The Bank introduced the APF under Mervyn King in 2009, with support from the Labour government....
February 29, 2024
News updates from March 19: Bank of Japan ends negative rate era; Microsoft hires DeepMind co-founder
Markets update: Japan stocks dip as central bank weighs interest rates rise
...Yields on Japanese two-year and 10-year government bonds have edged down but been stable ahead of the announcement....
March 19, 2024

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