Financial Insights That Matter High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all your […]
Financial Insights That Matter High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all your […]
Financial Insights That Matter (Bloomberg) — Growth in Japan’s exports slowed as the US ramped up its tariff measures, highlighting the risks the country faces after its economy already contracted before the levies began hitting in earnest. Most Read from Bloomberg Exports measured by value gained 2% in April from a year earlier, slowing from […]
Financial Insights That Matter Japan’s Finance Minister Kato Katsunobu and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent have reaffirmed the principle that exchange rates should be determined by the markets. Kato and Bessent met for about 30 minutes on Wednesday on the sidelines of the conference of Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank chiefs in […]
Financial Insights That Matter High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all your […]
Financial Insights That Matter The top finance officials from Japan and the United States reaffirmed the principle of market control of foreign exchange rates on Wednesday, but they made no mention of any specific currency level targets. It was the second meeting between Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent since the […]
Financial Insights That Matter By Makiko Yamazaki BANFF, Alberta (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato agreed on Wednesday that the dollar-yen exchange rate currently reflects fundamentals, the U.S. Treasury Department said, a rare and explicit statement on the market situation. President Donald Trump’s focus on addressing the huge […]
Financial Insights That Matter Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato on Wednesday discussed with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent currency issues connected to ongoing bilateral tariff negotiations, with both sides agreeing that the dollar-yen exchange rate at present reflects economic fundamentals. In contrast to what has been deemed by President Donald Trump as one of the […]
Financial Insights That Matter High risk warning: Foreign exchange trading carries a high level of risk that may not be suitable for all investors. Leverage creates additional risk and loss exposure. Before you decide to trade foreign exchange, carefully consider your investment objectives, experience level, and risk tolerance. You could lose some or all your […]
Financial Insights That Matter TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s exports to the United States, its largest single trading partner, fell nearly 2% in April as tariff hikes imposed by President Donald Trump hit home. Globally, exports rose just 2% year-on-year, down from 4% in March, leaving a trade deficit for the first time in three months. […]