Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, known as MUFG, is Japan’s largest banking group ... and while Japanese banks’ yen liquidity is very strong, they depend on access to US dollar funding for ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group's main competitors are the trust-bank units of Japanese megabank groups Mitsubishi UFJ and Mizuho. Given its shared connections to the Sumitomo and Mitsui keiretsu ...

TOKYO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The yen strengthened and Japanese government bond yields rose to fresh multi-year highs on Friday after the Bank of Japan hiked interest rates as expected and raised its ...

Japan's central bank raised interest rates to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis and revised up its inflation forecasts.

The bank’s pledge to seek more rate hikes sent Japanese government bond yields higher and boosted the yen. In recent trading: The policy-sensitive two-year yield briefly reached 0.725% ...

(Bloomberg) -- The yen is primed for further gains after the Bank of Japan sent hawkish signals while raising the benchmark interest rate, according to strategists. The upward revision in ...

The U.S. dollar fell to 155.41 Japanese yen from about 156 yen earlier in the day. A rate rise in July last year sent stock prices tumbling. The bank is also watching for market reactions to the ...

The move from the Japanese central bank fueled the Yen 0.7 per cent higher against the US dollar to 154.84 Yen. Bank of Japan remains an outlier on rate hikes, as other economy central banks have ...

The Bank of Japan increased interest rates on Friday to their highest in 17 years and signalled more hikes to come, sending the yen higher against the dollar. The well-flagged 25-basis-point rise ...

The U.S. dollar fell to 155.41 Japanese yen from about 156 yen earlier in the day. A rate rise in July last year sent stock prices tumbling. The bank is also watching for market reactions to the ...