NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—Yahoo! Inc. is adding to its mobile lineup with the acquisition of analytics company Flurry Inc. Yahoo is paying more than $300 million for the San Francisco-based startup, ac...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—Standard & Poor’s is seeking voluntary buyouts from as many as 100 U.S. employees in what would be the biggest staff cuts since the financial crisis for the credit grader, ac...

ZURICH (Bloomberg)—Credit Suisse Group AG posted its biggest quarterly loss since 2008 after paying $2.6 billion to settle a U.S. tax investigation and said it will exit its commodities business as...

Shipments of home appliances in June fell 6.8 percent from a year earlier to ¥250.7 billion, down for the second straight month, an industry group said Tuesday. The drop reflected a continued decl...

Supermarket sales in Japan in January-June posted the first, albeit tiny, year-on-year increase in 18 years, after adjustment for changes in the number of stores, industry data showed Tuesday. Supe...

Electricity sales by 10 major power suppliers in June fell 1.7 percent from a year before to 62.79 billion kilowatt-hours, down for the second consecutive month, an industry group said Tuesday. The ...

LONDON (Jiji Press)—Hitachi Ltd. displayed full-sized models of its AT-100 and AT-200 train cars currently under development for the British market to railway operators and the media on Monday. Th...

BEIJING (AP)—China’s food safety agency on Tuesday announced a nationwide inspection of processing factories and meat suppliers used by a company accused of selling expired beef and chicken to Mc...

The dollar was slightly firmer around ¥101.50 in postholiday Tokyo trading Tuesday, supported by a rise in Japanese stock prices. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥101.49-50, up from ¥101.40-4...

Stocks snapped their three-day losing streak on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday, buoyed by a weaker yen and buybacks after their recent falls. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed up 127.57 points, ...

LOS ANGELES (Bloomberg)— Toyota Motor Corp. plans to remain the top-selling auto brand among U.S. Hispanic customers as competing automakers boost efforts to win a bigger share of business from the...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg)—Apple Inc. has talked with former White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about a public-relations job, a friend of his said. Carney hasn’t made up his mind, according to ...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—A Chinese collector who bought an ancient Chinese ceramic cup for a record 281 million Hong Kong dollars (U.S.$36 million) at an auction in April got an unexpected bonus when h...

OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Panasonic Corp. is discussing the sale of its business related to mobile phone base stations to major Finnish communications equipment maker Nokia, it was learned Sunday. Panas...

Business leaders plan to accompany Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his 11-day Latin American tour from Friday to strengthen economic cooperation. Sadayuki Sakakibara, chairman of the Japan Business Fed...

SYDNEY (Jiji Press)—Japanese and European Union trade ministers agreed Saturday to speed up negotiations to reach a broad accord by the end of 2015 on concluding a bilateral economic partnership ag...

GENEVA (Bloomberg)—AbbVie Inc. and Shire PLC’s $54.8 billion (£32 billion) deal will make AbbVie the largest U.S. company to move its legal address abroad to lower its taxes as U.S. lawmakers se...

ROME (Bloomberg)—The Bank of Italy lowered its 2014 growth forecast for the country’s economy Friday and said the recovery is subject to “considerable uncertainties.” The central bank predic...

NEW YORK (AP)—Forbes said Friday it will sell a majority stake in the family owned magazine publisher to a Hong Kong-based investor group. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The New Y...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)— Amazon.com Inc. has introduced a $9.99- a-month service for unlimited Kindle e-book downloads, letting customers devour books like they binge on TV services like Netflix Inc. ...

Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Minister Akihiro Ota effectively gave the green light on Friday to construction of the Tokyo-Nagoya section of a planned high-speed, magnetic levitation Sh...

Fujitsu Ltd. will sell two domestic semiconductor factories to foreign firms, as the Japanese electronics maker plans to pull out of chip production and concentrate on design and development, it was ...

NEW YORK (AP)—The downing of a passenger plane flying over Ukraine rattled U.S. financial markets Thursday, deepening a slide set off by a batch of disappointing company earnings and a weak home co...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)—New York became the first U.S. state on Thursday to propose establishing rules for firms involved in receiving, transmitting and storing virtual currencies. The proposal by the De...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—The U.S. Commerce Department on Thursday said imports of grain-oriented electrical steel from Japan, Germany and Poland have been dumped, or sold at less than fair value, in...

The dollar was weaker below ¥101.50 in Tokyo trading on Friday, as risk-averse sentiment strengthened following a Malaysian Airlines jetliner crash in eastern Ukraine that claimed nearly 300 lives t...

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg)—Asian currencies fell for a second week as the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates and worsening conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine boosted demand for the relative saf...

The government revised up its economic assessment for the first time in six months in its July economic report released Thursday, pointing to a less impact of a demand drop after its surge prior to t...

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg)—Orix Corp. agreed to buy a 600 billion won ($583 million) stake in the Hyundai Group’s logistics unit jointly with Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. Orix and the group’s shippi...

Demand for bank loans among individuals fell sharply in July, a quarterly Bank of Japan survey showed Thursday. The diffusion index on changes in individual loan demand over the past three months fe...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—China and Japan, the two largest foreign buyers of Treasuries, increased their holdings of the debt in May as U.S. yields that were higher than those of Germany and most other ...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—General Electric Co. is in talks with potential acquirers about selling its century-old household appliances business, a unit that’s a prominent part of the company’s histo...

The demand-supply gap in the Japanese economy has turned positive for the first time in about six years, according to the the Bank of Japan. The yardstick for the difference between actual demand an...

NEW YORK (Jiji Press)—Toyota Motor Corp. is likely to have kept its position as top global vehicle seller in the first half of 2014 for the third straight year. On Wednesday, U.S. rival General Mo...

Stocks lost ground slightly on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, with early gains wiped out by selling on a rally in the absence of fresh incentives. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed down 9.04 p...

The dollar was easier around ¥101.50 in Tokyo trading on Thursday, weighed down by sagging U.S. long-term interest rates. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.49-50, down from ¥101.69-69 at the sa...

NEW YORK (AP)—The Federal Reserve’s latest take on the U.S. economy put many investors into sell mode Tuesday, sending stocks mostly lower after a brief upward turn early in the day. Fed Chair J...

Smartphone messaging service provider LINE Corp. has filed for listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, with market capitalization expected to total about ¥1 trillion, sources said Tuesday. An initial ...

Average household income fell 2 percent in 2012 from the preceding year to ¥5,372,000, the fourth-lowest level since comparable data became available in 1985, a government survey has revealed. The...

New condominiums put up for sale in the greater Tokyo area from January to June plunged 20.2 percent from a year earlier to 19,394 units, falling below 20,000 units for the first time in three years,...

Stocks ended slightly lower in directionless trading on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday amid a dearth of fresh incentives. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed down 15.86 points, or 0.10 percen...

The dollar was firmer around ¥101.70 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday, underpinned by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s congressional testimony that suggested the possibility of an earlier-th...

The Bank of Japan on Tuesday maintained its basic projections that the country’s economy will achieve the central bank’s 2 percent inflation target in 2015. At the end of a two-day monetary pol...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—Japan and the United States started two-day working-level tariff talks in Washington on Monday on the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade pact. The two sides...

SEATTLE (Bloomberg)—Microsoft Corp. is planning its biggest round of job cuts in five years, as the software maker looks to slim down and integrate Nokia Oyj’s handset unit, people with knowledge...

The dollar held firm around ¥101.50 in Tokyo trading Tuesday, helped by higher stock prices both in Japan and the United States. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.56-56, up from ¥101.46-47 at t...

Japan’s gross domestic product growth would be boosted by 0.5 percentage point in price-adjusted real terms if businesses in the country boost investment in information and communications technolog...

Stocks gained ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, boosted by purchases following Wall Street’s advance, but their upside was capped by profit-taking and selling on a rally. The 225-issu...

NEW YORK (AP)—Stocks shook off last week’s doldrums and finished sharply higher Monday, driven by a round of corporate deal news and strong earnings from Citigroup. Investors cheered AECOM Techn...

OTTAWA—Emerging economies are at odds with developed countries in negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact, clashing over the reform of their state-run firms to ensure a fair ...

SEOUL (AP)—Samsung Electronics Co. said it has suspended business ties with a Chinese supplier that allegedly hired children. The South Korean company, which is the world’s biggest smartphone ma...

Economic indicators have shown mixed results since the consumption tax hike in April to 8 percent, with data on consumer confidence and employment faring well and data on household spending and capit...

The dollar firmed up around ¥101.50 in Tokyo trading late Monday as concerns over major Portuguese bank Banco Espirito Santo receded. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.46-47, slightly up from ¥...

Stocks climbed for the first time in six sessions on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, thanks to buybacks inspired by higher U.S. equities. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average closed up 132.78 poin...

NEW YORK (Jiji Press)—SoftBank Corp. is struggling to gain an edge in the U.S. mobile phone service market one year after its debut. In July last year, SoftBank bought Sprint Nextel Corp., the thi...

OTTAWA (Jiji Press)—Chief negotiators from the 12 member countries in Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade talks ended their eight-day session in Ottawa on Saturday with progress on issues other th...

A government panel has adopted a proposal for regulatory changes that would block plans by discount mobile carrier Ymobile Corp. to offer fourth-generation wireless services. The proposal sets new c...

Japan Exchange Group Inc. (JPX) has formed a comprehensive tie-up with the Bank of China to develop yuan-denominated financial products for trading in Japan. The collaboration between JPX, which ope...

ZURICH (Bloomberg)—Burberry Group PLC shareholders rejected the British luxury-goods maker’s remuneration report, rebelling against a £10.3 million ($18 million) pay package awarded to new Chief...

Net assets of publicly offered investment trust funds stood at ¥83.5 trillion at the end of June, rewriting the record high for the first time in more than six years, the Investment Trusts Associati...

Four electronics retailers posted year-on-year sales declines in June, according to their preliminary reports. Sales fell 13.7 percent at Yamada Denki Co., 12.3 percent at the Bic Camera Inc. group,...

BOSTON (Bloomberg)—International students enrolled in U.S. high schools to earn a diploma have more than tripled in number since 2004, outpacing exchange students, according to the Institute of Int...

The amount of electricity generated and purchased by 10 major power suppliers in June decreased 1.6 percent from a year before to 69.81 billion kilowatt-hours, falling for the third consecutive month...

Sales of used vehicles in Japan fell 1.2 percent from a year before to 2,011,833 units in January-June, the Japan Automobile Dealers Association said Thursday. The first-half sales decreased for the...

LONDON (Bloomberg)—Google Inc.’s venture capital unit, the business responsible for investing in Nest Labs and Uber Technologies Inc., has added a European branch with a $100 million initial inve...

Consumer sentiment in Japan improved for the second straight month in June, a government survey revealed. The seasonally adjusted consumer confidence index for household outlook on living conditions...

NEW YORK (AP)—The Federal Trade Commission is suing Amazon over charges that the company has not done enough to prevent children from making unauthorized in-app purchases, according to a complaint ...

Stocks extended their losing streak to a fifth session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday as U.S. and European equities fell overnight and the yen strengthened against other major currencies. The 22...

The dollar lost further ground to slip below ¥101.50 in Tokyo trading Friday as the yen attracted safe-haven demand due to concerns over a major bank in Portugal, but its downside was limited before...

The producer price index rose 4.6 percent in June from a year before, up for the 15th straight month and reflecting higher crude oil prices, a Bank of Japan report showed Thursday. The index stood ...

Seasonally adjusted core machinery orders slumped 19.5 percent in May from the previous month, the largest fall for any month since comparable data became available in April 2005, the Cabinet Office ...

Fast Retailing Co., Asia’s biggest clothing retailer, cut its forecast for annual profit for the second time in the current fiscal year, citing losses from its J Brand fashion unit in the United St...

Daihatsu Motor Co. has released its partially remodeled Mira e:S minivehicle featuring the nation’s highest fuel economy among gasoline-powered vehicles, excluding hybrids. The new Mira e:S can tr...

Gumi Inc., a Japanese developer of mobile games, plans an initial public offering as soon as this year that may value the company at about ¥100 billion, people with knowledge of the matter said. Th...

Recruit Holdings Co. has filed for the listing of its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, informed sources have said. After gaining approval from the TSE, Recruit is expected to go public on the Fi...

NEW YORK (AP)—BNP Paribas, France’s largest bank, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of violating U.S. economic sanctions by processing transactions for clients in blacklisted countries...

TOULOUSE, France (Bloomberg)—IndiGo is talking to Airbus Group NV about an order for 200 more A320neo jets, a deal valued at about $20.6 billion in list prices, as India’s biggest domestic airlin...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—International Business Machines Corp. plans to spend $3 billion on semiconductor research and development in the next five years, even as the company is said to be selling its ...

Yoshinoya Co., a major beef bowl restaurant chain, plans to make a full-scale entry into the izakaya pub business in large cities, company officials said Wednesday. A total of about 20 to 30 existin...

Beer and quasi-beer shipments in Japan in January-June fell 1.2 percent from a year before to 196,850,000 cases, the lowest figure ever for the first-half period, data from five major brewers showed ...

Personal information of up to 20.7 million Benesse Corp. customers may have been leaked, the parent of the major correspondence education service provider has said. Benesse Holdings Inc. said Wedne...

Stocks lost ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday with investor sentiment hurt by Japan’s far-worse-than-expected machinery orders in May. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed down 86.18 poin...

The dollar moved narrowly around ¥101.50 in Tokyo trading Thursday, pressured by an overnight drop in U.S. long-term interest rates and a fall in Tokyo stock prices. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ...

It appears highly likely the 12 countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact will not reach a general agreement this summer, though the goal of an accord by the end of the year has ...

The daily average balance of M3 money stock, which covers cash in circulation, demand and time deposits plus certificates of deposit, came to ¥1.19 quadrillion in June, up 2.4 percent from the year ...

MOSCOW (Bloomberg)—Sales of new cars in Russia plunged by the most in more than four years in June as a weaker ruble curbed demand. Automakers sold 199,398 vehicles last month, down 17.3 percent f...

The dollar was moderately weaker below ¥102 in Tokyo trading Wednesday, with a wait-and-see mood growing before the release later in the day of the minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policy-set...

Sentiment among so-called economy watchers improved for the second straight month in June, the Cabinet Office said. The diffusion index gauging sentiment among such workers as retail clerks and taxi...

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. will begin to ship liquefied natural gas produced on the Yamal Peninsula, northern Russia, via the Arctic Ocean in 2018, informed sources said Wednesday. The shipping firm h...

NEW YORK (AP)—Investors unloaded stocks for a second straight day ahead of a slew of corporate earnings that will help them determine whether a recent run-up in the market is justified. The sellin...

Stocks dropped for the third straight session on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday on selling spurred by lower U.S. equities and the yen’s appreciation. The 225-issue Nikkei average closed dow...