Tag - yuan

 
Menu
Search
 
November 23, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

YUAN

BUSINESS
Mar 9, 2016
China may face Japan-like slump unless yuan weakens, KKR says
China could be facing the same kind of anemic growth that Japan did in the 1990s unless it moves to weaken the yuan to alleviate the country's debt burden and fend off deflation, according to KKR & Co., one of the world's largest private equity firms.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2016
China suffering from a transparency problem
Effective communication with market participants and real-economy players will be crucial if China is to achieve market credibility and stability.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 5, 2016
China filming its own version of 'The Big Short'
The second biggest economy has $23 billion of potential junk debt. A rash of downgrades could trigger the next bout of turmoil in global markets.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 27, 2016
Chinese tourist spending under threat as yuan slides 10% against yen
Chinese tourists tumbling off buses into the Laox duty-free store in Tokyo's bustling Ginza district say the yuan's drop against the yen may make them think twice about splurging during their shopping tours.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 21, 2016
Chinese currency chaos
China's 'supply-side structural reform' to deal with production overcapacity includes the risky strategy of devaluing the yuan.
BUSINESS
Jan 11, 2016
Yuan loan rates soar in Hong Kong as Beijing halts currency's slide
Interbank yuan lending rates in Hong Kong climbed to records across the board after suspected intervention by China's central bank last week mopped up supplies of the currency in the offshore market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 8, 2016
Continued NYSE plunge puts Dow on course for worst start in century as China, yuan keep diving
Shares on major exchanges fell for a sixth consecutive day on Thursday and crude prices touched multi-year lows as investors fretted over the state of the Chinese economy and its ability to stabilize its stock market.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 2, 2015
Trump's 'Japan Is back' rhetoric signals campaign focus on alleged currency manipulation
Donald Trump's claim that "Japan is back" isn't the dominant view among economists. Apparently, the Bank of Japan agrees with his assessment.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 14, 2015
China experts highlight need for economy based on consumption, innovation
Can the Chinese economy continue to thrive? This was the question that dominated discussions among leading Chinese and foreign business executives who gathered at a World Economic Forum meeting in the northeastern city of Dalian last week.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 3, 2015
As Asia depreciates, Japan megabanks fear for their loans
Japanese banks may be starting to regret their biggest increase in overseas lending in 30 years as Asian economies slump and currencies tumble.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 27, 2015
Market mayhem shakes brokers out of usual August lull
On Daiwa Securities Group Inc.'s Tokyo trading floor, Yukio Ikehata is spending more time listening to clients than processing orders to buy stocks.
EDITORIALS
Aug 26, 2015
Sources of turbulence not gone
Developments in the Chinese economy need to be closely watched not just for their stock market repercussions but also for their impact on Japan's growth.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2015
The value of China's devaluation
China's currency devaluation has advanced its strategic goal of turning the RMB into an international reserve currency — and, in the long term, into a credible global challenger to the U.S. dollar.
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2015
Market turbulence and the yuan
Japan should brace for a 'China shock' to the global economy.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 20, 2015
Worries over Chinese yuan put BOJ in a bind
China's devaluation of the yuan exposes an undefended flank in the Bank of Japan's efforts to jolt its flagging economy out of decades of deflation, which rely heavily on a solid pick-up in overseas demand.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2015
Beijing playing a risky money game
The main danger is that China will destabilize the global economy through excessive currency depreciation.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 13, 2015
Japan can offset China yuan move by easing: Abe adviser
Japan "need not worry" about China's devaluation of the yuan because it can always offset the effects by easing monetary policy, said an adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 13, 2015
Contrary to Trump's assumptions, data show China doesn't 'continuously' devalue yuan
Bashing China is a time-honored tradition among U.S. candidates for higher public office, and no one has done that with more zest in this election cycle than billionaire Donald Trump.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 12, 2015
Stocks slump as China weakens yuan for second day
Japanese stocks fell the most in a month as China devalued its currency for a second day, heightening concern growth may slow in the world's second-largest economy and dampening the outlook for Japanese exporters.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
By Kathryn Wortley

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

The celebrated artist ‘updating’ the kimono
The celebrated artist ‘updating’ the kimono

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER