Stocks, bonds, currencies, and the forces moving global markets.
SmartRound Securities, freshly licensed to broker Japan's unlisted shares, is expanding into the US and UK, giving foreign investors a way into private Japanese companies years before any of them consider an IPO.
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With the policy rate now at a three decade high, the easy assumption that a variable rate mortgage always beats a fixed one no longer holds automatically, and borrowers who signed loans years ago are starting to feel a cycle that once seemed theoretical.
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Governor Kazuo Ueda pushed the policy rate to a thirty one year high of 1.25 percent and declared that our policy phase has changed, even as two board members dissented from a decision that came just three months after the last increase.
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Markets have all but locked in a quarter point increase to 1.25 percent at next week's policy meeting, a move that would mark the shortest gap between hikes since Governor Kazuo Ueda's tightening campaign began in March 2024.
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The currency climbed four yen in a single session to reach 155 against the dollar, its strongest level since early August, after Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda made clear a rate increase is squarely on the table this month.
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Finance ministry data released Friday showed Tokyo bought yen on a scale never seen before between late July and late August, its second major currency defense of the year and a sign of how hard the weak yen has become to manage.
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