Financial Insights That Matter The finance chiefs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea warned Sunday of the potential global economic fallout of protectionist trade policies, following the announcement of higher import tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump. “Escalating trade protectionism weighs on global trade, leading to economic fragmentation, […]
Financial Insights That Matter MILAN — Asian finance and central bank chiefs on Sunday warned that barriers to trade threaten to create rifts in the global economy. “Escalating trade protectionism weighs on global trade, leading to economic fragmentation, affecting trade, investment, and capital flows across the region,” officials from Japan, China, South Korea and Association […]
Financial Insights That Matter No country holds more provable Treasury debt than Japan with roughly $1.1 trillion, equivalent to a quarter of its entire economy. Since dumping U.S. sovereign bonds would severely hurt both Japan and the United States, investors view the threat as a psychological tactic to exert pressure as the clock ticks down […]
Financial Insights That Matter WASHINGTON/TOKYO (Reuters) -Top U.S. and Japanese officials agreed to start immediate working-level consultations after “frank and constructive” trade talks in Washington on Thursday, the U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday, but Japanese accounts were more downbeat. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met […]
Financial Insights That Matter (Bloomberg) — Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. Most Read from Bloomberg Japan’s chief negotiator expressed hopes of reaching a trade agreement with the US in June, even as a media report indicated the two sides remained at odds on the key issue of […]
Financial Insights That Matter Forexlive | Forex News, Technical Analysis & Trading ToolsJapan’s Kato: We’ll continue to ask US to reconsider tariffsKatsunobu Kato is Japan’s Finance Minister. There’s nothing new here as the Japanese continue to push for a rollback of the reciprocal….8 hours ago Boost Your Financial Knowledge and Achieve Stability Discover a growing […]
Financial Insights That Matter Japanese Finance Minister Kato Katsunobu has said US government bond holdings could be one of the country’s bargaining chips in tariff negotiations with Washington. Kato made the comment on a TV Tokyo business news broadcast on Friday. He noted that there is a view among market players that plunges in US […]
Financial Insights That Matter Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Japan’s finance minister has publicly identified the country’s more than $1tn holdings of US Treasuries as a “card” in its trade negotiations with the Trump administration, in a rare […]
Financial Insights That Matter TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s massive holdings of U.S. Treasurys can be “a card on the table” in negotiations over tariffs with the Trump administration, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said Friday. “It does exist as a card, but I think whether we choose to use it or not would be a separate […]
Financial Insights That Matter (Bloomberg) — Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade. Sign up here. Most Read from Bloomberg Japan’s Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said the country’s US Treasury holdings could be a card in its trade talks with Washington, referring to the largest stockpile of US debt held by a […]