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Japanese stocks declined on Monday as auto and electronics shares were hit hard.

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 31, 2025

Japanese stocks fall about 4% ahead of Trump's 'Liberation Day'

By Kazuaki Nagata

Traders and analysts are expecting a week of volatility as the U.S. tariff situation becomes clearer and waivers, if any, are granted.

Customers browse Amorepacific cosmetics at the store inside the company's headquarters in Seoul.

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 31, 2025

Seoul overtakes Paris in beauty boom with dealmakers rushing in

By Heejin Kim

South Korea last year became the top exporter of cosmetics to the United States, overtaking France, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission.

Yields on Japan's 10-year government bonds have risen at a fast pace since the Bank of Japan ended its negative-rate policy last year and started to tighten.

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 25, 2025

Japan bond rout signals era of ultralow rates might really be over

By Kazuaki Nagata

For the first time in 16 years, yields on Japanese 10-year government bonds have jumped 50 basis points since November to above 1.5%.

Cars parked at the port in Bayonne, New Jersey, in 2021

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 25, 2025

Stocks rise as Trump hints at delays to auto tariffs and relief for some

By Andrea Shalal, David Lawder and Timothy Gardner

U.S. markets ended Monday broadly higher on optimism that the tariffs set to be detailed next week may not be as extensive as expected.

Supporters of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu take part in a demonstration in Istanbul on Wednesday.

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 20, 2025

Turkey detains Erdogan’s top rival, triggering market meltdown

By Beril Akman, Inci Ozbek and Tugce Ozsoy

The mayor's detention highlights an increasingly aggressive campaign that Turkey's president is waging against critics to silence dissent.

Bank of Japan headquarters building in February. In January, the BOJ voted to raise its short-term policy rate to 0.5% from 0.25%, taking it to the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis.

BUSINESS / Markets

Mar 17, 2025

Bank of Japan unlikely to raise rates this week as trade war intensifies

By Kazuaki Nagata

The central bank voted to raise its short-term policy rate to 0.5% from 0.25% in January, taking it to the highest level since the 2008 financial crisis.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order earlier this month establishing the 'Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.'

BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS

Mar 16, 2025

Trump's bitcoin reserve to be a 'digital Fort Knox'

By Lucie Lequier

The reserve is funded by about 200,000 bitcoins — worth nearly $17 billion — that have been seized in the U.S. as a result of civil and criminal cases.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.

The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan

By Johan Brooks

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