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Line Corp. has filed a Form F-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding its initial public offering (IPO). Each American Depositary Share (ADS) in the offering represents one...
Line Corp. has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding its initial public offering (IPO).
According to a report came from Fitch Ratings, there was a whopping $10.4 trillion in sovereign debt with negative yields in May.
Fighting deflation has a cost, and as of April 25 that cost is negative interest rate yields on $9.9 trillion in global sovereign debt. Of the total, $6.8 trillion is long-term debt and $3.1 trillion...
Japan recently adopted its own negative interest rate policy. Its long-term bond yields even hit record lows in recent days.
Japanese bond yields have managed to hit a new low. This happened on a day where stocks were selling off after three weeks of gains, so it seems to have helped push down yields in the United States...
November marked a record month for China in terms of the pace of its liquidation of foreign exchange reserves.
Late last week, Boeing completed the aerial refueling initial airworthiness testing for its KC-46A tanker.
The world's third largest economy has fallen into recession as the government announced a second quarter of contraction.
So-called hedged ETFs take all or most of the currency risk out of the equation. They simply trade in dollars and track the raw underlying equity market indexes on which they are based.
Echoing others before it, a fresh report from Fitch Ratings has lowered its global economic outlook for 2015.
It may not seem like much of a big deal to U.S. investors, but the Asian equities markets will have to trade without Japan leading off for the first three days of the week.
Don’t be fooled by Japan’s frantic 7.7% rally Tuesday. It is most likely a bull trap that is short term in nature and will reverse itself relatively quickly.
It is rare that any major national stock market rises 7.7%. Japan's Nikkei rose that much Monday. Call it a relief rally.
Japan's economy is still troubled, but it is getting better, according to the International Monetary Fund.