The dollar softened below ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading Thursday after Japanese and U.S. leaders stopped short of announcing a bilateral trade agreement as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership initiativ...

BEIJING (Jiji Press)—The Shanghai Maritime Court said Thursday that it has decided to end the seizure of a Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. ship in connection with a dispute over a wartime lease contract. ...

Stocks fell back on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, dragged down by selling from players who had expected progress in Japan-U.S. talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade init...

NEW YORK (AP)—Stocks edged mostly lower Wednesday, breaking a six-day winning streak, as investors were disappointed by the latest round of earnings from U.S. companies. A surprise drop in new ho...

BEIJING (AP)—Workers on strike at a Chinese factory owned by the world’s largest maker of athletic shoes have rejected management’s latest offer in an ongoing labor dispute that is crimping pro...

NAGOYA (Jiji Press)—The Toyota Motor Corp. group has become the world’s first to achieve annual global automobile sales of over 10 million units. Sales by the parent and two units—Daihatsu Mot...

The dollar continued to drift in a narrow range around ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading on Wednesday without major market-moving news, but its downside was supported by higher Japanese and U.S. stock prices...

Japan Tobacco Inc. said Tuesday that it will give almost all of its employees a one-time payment of ¥200,000, as a way of passing on the benefit the company received through the lifting of a special...

Solar Frontier K.K., a unit of Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., may build a manufacturing plant for solar panels in New York as part of the state’s efforts to become a leader in clean energy innovation and...

Intermediate wholesalers at Tokyo’s Tsukiji fish market and the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) launched a study group on Tuesday to discuss how to boost Japan’s fish exports. The ass...

NEW YORK (AP)—McDonald’s is fighting to hold onto customers in the United States. The world’s biggest hamburger chain said sales at established U.S. locations fell 1.7 percent in the first thr...

AMSTERDAM (AP)—Shares in Royal Philips, the world’s leading light maker, slumped Tuesday after the Dutch company reported a drop in first-quarter profits blamed partly on sluggish sales—includi...

Stocks rebounded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday, helped by higher Wall Street stocks overnight. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended up 157.50 points, or 1.09 percent, at the day’s hig...

WASHINGTON (AP)—Sales of existing U.S. homes slipped in March to their lowest level since July 2012 as rising prices and a tight supply of available homes discouraged many would-be buyers. The Nat...

NEW YORK (AP)—Corporate deals and some solid earnings reports propelled the stock market to its sixth straight gain Tuesday. Allergan surged after Valeant Pharmaceuticals said it had teamed up wi...

Railway and hotel group Seibu Holdings Inc. debuted on the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s First Section Wednesday as the Seibu brand made a comeback, after a predecessor was delisted in December 2004 for u...

BEIJING (Jiji Press)—Toyota Motor Corp. aims to make hybrid versions eventually account for 20 percent of total sales of the new Corolla and Levin compact sedans it will launch in China this year, ...

Huis Ten Bosch, H.I.S. Co.’s Dutch-themed amusement park in Nagasaki Prefecture, is considering buying a deserted offshore island in an expansion to boost its appeal as a possible site for a casino...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP)—The United Auto Workers dropped its appeal of a worker vote against unionizing at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, a move that the union said should put pressure on Republican...

OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Panasonic Corp. plans to enter the farming business with a newly developed low-cost vinyl greenhouse production system. The leading home electronics maker will launch the syste...

TORONTO (Bloomberg)—Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, the largest pension manager in Canada’s most populous province, is partnering with GE Aviation and the Japanese government to finance an engi...

NEW YORK (AP)—AT&T says it will expand super-fast Internet services to as many as 100 additional cities in 25 metropolitan areas in the United States. The service’s 1 gigabit per second speed i...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (Bloomberg)—Ford Motor Co., the second-largest U.S. automaker, will soon name Mark Fields its next chief executive officer and reveal when current CEO Alan Mulally will retire from...

Stocks fell on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday on profit-taking ahead of key events including a wave of corporate earnings reports. The 225-issue Nikkei average ended down 123.61 points, or 0.85...

Working-level officials of Japan and the United States started full-scale discussions Tuesday to iron out remaining differences over the envisaged Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade ag...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Apple is offering free recycling of all its used products and vowing to power all of its stores, offices and data centers with renewable energy to reduce the pollution caused by ...

The dollar was easier around ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading on Tuesday, dragged down by a late sell-off in Japanese shares. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥102.49-50, down from ¥102.53-54 at the same t...

JAKARKA—The Japanese government has warned Indonesia that it will file a complaint with the World Trade Organization claiming that Indonesia has been unfairly restricting mineral ore exports, inclu...

NEW YORK (AP)—The stock market logged its longest winning streak in six months Monday as another big week for company earnings began. Halliburton, an oil and gas drilling company, rose after repo...

Mitsubishi Corp. said Monday it has agreed with India’s leading information technology firm, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., to integrate their IT service operations in Japan. In 2012, Mitsubishi...

A panel of experts called on the government Monday to implement a proposed cut in the country’s effective corporate tax rate to double the amount of foreign direct investment in Japan by 2020. The...

Corporate demand for bank loans has declined for the first time in three quarters, a Bank of Japan quarterly survey showed Monday. The deterioration chiefly resulted from slower growth in loans to ...

Major banks turned net sellers of domestic public and private sector bonds for the first time in two months in March, industry data showed Monday. Their net selling came to ¥602.4 billion, accordin...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker, held informal, now-discontinued talks with AstraZeneca PLC about possibly buying the London-based maker of asthma and heart drugs,...

NEW YORK (AP)—Rising costs for materials and labor appear to be pressuring U.S. businesses, according to a quarterly survey from the National Association of Business Economics. During the first q...

Oki Electric Industry Co. said Monday it had established a unit in Mumbai to sell automated teller machines. Through the launch of Oki India Private Ltd., the company aims to grab a 20 percent mark...

Shipments of flat-panel television sets in Japan dropped 10.6 percent in March from a year earlier to 508,000 units, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association said Monda...

The dollar gained ground around ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading on Monday on buying prompted by worse-than-expected Japanese trade data for March although weakening stocks trimmed its gains. At 5 p.m., t...

Stocks failed to sustain their earlier strength supported by the yen’s weakness and ended lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended down 3.89 points, o...

Japan’s tariff rate on rice imports will likely be maintained almost at the current level in negotiations with the United States in ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) multilateral free-trade t...

ROME (AP)—Fiat and Chrysler announced plans Saturday to build three new Jeep models in China for that market, the biggest for the vehicles outside the United States, as they attempt to boost sales ...

Signs have emerged that manufacturers are moving production back to Japan to help domestically produced goods regain international competitiveness, now that the yen has weakened and labor costs overs...

Internet service providers across the nation face realignment as a number of major electronics makers review relations with their affiliated ISPs. In late March, NEC Corp. sold Biglobe Inc. to Japa...

DETROIT (AP)—Government documents show that General Motors waited years to recall nearly 335,000 Saturn Ions for power steering failures despite getting thousands of consumer complaints and warrant...

The margin of year-on-year falls in sales of foods at supermarkets, excluding fresh foods, narrowed to 10 percent in the second week after the April 1 consumption tax hike from 17 percent in the firs...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—Japan and the United States ended their three-day ministerial talks on the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade initiative in Washington on Friday without narro...

NEW YORK (AP)—General Electric’s new focus on oil and gas equipment helped the company to post strong first-quarter results. GE posted lower overall first-quarter net income than a year ago, bu...

NICOSIA (AP)—Bailed-out Cyprus says it will issue six-year government bonds every month starting in June as a first step to returning more permanently to international markets after a three-year ab...

NEW YORK (AP)—Investment bank Morgan Stanley said Thursday that its first-quarter income rose 18 percent from a year ago, helped by higher earnings in its trading and merger and acquisitions adviso...

NEW YORK (Jiji Press)—Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. is considering a second launch of electric vehicles in the United States in response to planned tightening of environmental regulations, President Y...

FUKUSHIMA (Jiji Press)—Sharp Corp. will build a 2,200-kilowatt mega solar power plant in Tomioka, Fukushima Prefecture, in an evacuation advisory area near the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plan...

NEW YORK (AP)—PepsiCo reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit as the company sold more snacks around the world and hiked prices, including on its drinks. The company, which also makes ...

NEW YORK (AP)—Wal-Mart is delving deeper into financial services at its stores and shaking up the money transfer business. The world’s largest retailer introduced a new money transfer service T...

Zensho Holdings Co. said Thursday that it will split its Sukiya brand gyudon beef-on-rice restaurant operations into seven regional companies as part of efforts to improve the labor environment. Th...

NEW YORK (AP)—Chinese social media company Weibo Corp.’s shares soared in their U.S. market debut Thursday. Weibo was launched four years ago by Chinese online media company Sina Corp. Weibo pr...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—No progress has been made so far in the latest round of Japan-U.S. ministerial talks concerning Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade negotiations, TPP minister ...

Sales at department stores in March jumped 25.4 percent from a year before on a same-store basis, led by increased demand before the April 1 consumption tax increase from 5 percent to 8 percent, indu...

Stocks gained ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday in extremely thin trading ahead of the weekend and holiday closures in overseas markets. The 225-isssue Nikkei average ended up 98.74 points, ...

NEW YORK (AP)—Corporate earnings pushed U.S. stocks mostly higher on Thursday, but it wasn’t an easy ride up. The stock market appeared set in the morning for its fourth consecutive positive op...

Convenience store chain FamilyMart Co. and karaoke machine manufacturer Daiichikosho Co. have opened a joint karaoke facility and convenience store in the Kamata district in Ota Ward, Tokyo. Custom...

The dollar gained ground and traded around ¥102.50 in Tokyo trading Friday, attracting purchases thanks chiefly to upbeat U.S. economic data released overnight. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥102...

Failed Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox said the Tokyo District Court has rejected its application for bankruptcy protection under the Civil Rehabilitation Law. As a result, Mt. Gox is expected...

NEW YORK (AP)—Gap Inc. announced Wednesday it plans to more than triple sales in China in three years as it seeks to grab a bigger piece of the overall $1.4 trillion global clothing market. The S...

The Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Ministry on Thursday announced plans to set low-tariff import quotas for ox tongue and pork from Australia under the two countries’ planned economic partners...

The government revised down its basic economic assessment in a monthly report released Thursday, the first downgrade since November 2012, citing some weakness associated with the April 1 consumption ...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—A labor dispute that all but shut platinum mines in South Africa since January is extending the longest shortfall in global production since 2005, which Morgan Stanley predicts...

Suzuki Motor Corp. said it will develop a simplified hybrid system for use in its compact cars and minivehicles to help improve fuel efficiency. “We want to resolve cost problems and introduce it...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg)—Weibo Corp., the Chinese microblogging service owned by Sina Corp. and Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd., raised $285.6 million its U.S. initial public offering after pricing the sha...

OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Sharp Corp. said Thursday cumulative sales of products equipped with its Plasmacluster air purification technology reached 50 million units worldwide at the end of 2013. Commerc...

WASHINGTON (AP)—A U.S. Federal Reserve Board survey shows economic growth picking up across most of the United States over the past two months as bitter winter weather subsided. Ten of the Fed’...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—Japan-U.S. ministerial talks linked to the Trans-Pacific Partnership multilateral free trade negotiations effectively kicked off Wednesday with a dinner here attended by Aki...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Google’s first-quarter earnings growth faltered as the Internet’s most influential company grappled with a persistent downturn in advertising prices while spending more money...

The dollar lost moderate ground and moved around ¥102 in Tokyo trading Thursday, displaying no clear direction due to a lack of major trading incentives. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood ¥102.02-03, d...

Stocks finished almost flat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Thursday, failing to sustain earlier gains due to profit-taking after the previous day’s sharp rise. The 225-issue Nikkei average ended down...

NEW YORK (AP)—Investors drove stock prices to their highest level in a week Wednesday, encouraged by a crop of corporate earnings and reassuring U.S. and Chinese economic data. Major U.S. stock i...

Japan will likely be able to maintain tariffs on rice; wheat and barley; and sugar and starch—three of the five agricultural categories it sees as “sanctuaries”—in negotiations with the United...

BEIJING (AP)—China’s economic growth slowed further in the latest quarter but appeared strong enough to satisfy Chinese leaders who are trying to put the country on a more sustainable path withou...

BEIJING (Bloomberg)—China’s expansion moderated to the weakest pace in six quarters and property construction plunged, testing leaders’ commitment to keep reining in credit as risks mount of a ...

BRUSSELS (AP)—The European Union’s Parliament on Tuesday completed the biggest overhaul of the bloc’s financial system since the introduction of the euro currency, passing laws to minimize the r...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—Yahoo Inc. is still prospering from its lucrative investments in Asia while the Internet company’s listless advertising sales are picking up, if ever so slightly, under CEO Mar...

WASHINGTON (AP)—The Obama administration is raising concern about the value of China’s currency but is declining, as in recent years, to accuse Beijing of manipulating it. The administration als...

KDDI Corp. and SoftBank Corp. have reiterated their opposition to a possible easing of regulations on NTT Corp. At a task force meeting of the Information and Communications Council, which advises ...

NEW YORK (AP)—Coca-Cola, the world’s biggest beverage maker, said Tuesday that the amount of soda it sold globally fell for first time in 15 years. The drop in the first quarter was offset by st...

FRANKFURT (AP)—Food company Nestle SA says sales rose 4.2 percent in the first quarter compared with a year ago despite deflationary pressures in Europe. The Switzerland-based maker of Lean Cuisin...

The number of new condominiums put up for sale in the greater Tokyo area in fiscal 2013 topped 50,000 units for the first time in six years, according to the Real Estate Economic Institute. In the ...

TAIPEI (Jiji Press)—Taiwan authorities said Tuesday they have approved the acquisition of Tokyo Star Bank by Taiwan’s Chinatrust Commercial Bank. Chinatrust, based in Taipei, will apply for appr...

The Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry has started surveys to measure shallow methane hydrate deposits in five marine areas. Sonic geological research will be conducted in the waters off Hidaka, H...

Stocks surged on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Wednesday on the heels of higher U.S. equities overnight, with the benchmark Nikkei Stock Average closing well above the psychologically important 14,000. ...

The dollar topped ¥102 in Tokyo trading Wednesday, assisted by a surge in Tokyo stock prices and favorable Chinese economic data. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥102.21-25, up from ¥101.79-80 at...

A stock market swoon turned into a comeback Tuesday. Stocks managed a late-afternoon rebound for the second time in two days as investors seemed to brush off a report of lower confidence among home...

WASHINGTON (Bloomberg)—The U.S. government’s deficit will fall to $492 billion this fiscal year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, a steeper drop than originally predicted from $680 bi...

Retail giant Aeon Co. plans to raise its equity stake in drugstore operator Welcia Holdings Co. next February to more than 50 percent from about 29 percent. Before the move, Welcia will consolidate...

Orix Corp., Japan’s most acquisitive financial firm, plans to spend $1.5 billion on takeovers around the world in the next 12 months, President Makoto Inoue said. In the United States, Orix is in...

Nippon Export and Investment Insurance will provide up to about ¥700 million in trade insurance for an infrastructure construction joint venture set up in Myanmar by JFE Engineering Corp., officials...

Kirin Brewery Co. will start offering a premium high-quality version of its mainstay Ichiban Shibori beer on June 11 for sale exclusively as chugen summer gifts and seibo year-end gifts. The move b...

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said he told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the central bank won’t hesitate to adjust monetary policy if needed, after the pair met for lunch in Tokyo on Tuesday....

DETROIT (AP)—General Motors is replacing the executives in charge of communications and human resources as it struggles with a string of embarrassing recalls that have led to congressional hearings...

NEW YORK (AP)—Google has bought Titan Aerospace, a maker of solar-powered drones, saying it could help bring Internet access to remote parts of the world as well as solve other problems. Financia...

Fujitsu Ltd. and Panasonic Corp. will merge their operations design and development operations for large-scale integrated circuits, possibly as soon as autumn, informed sources said Tuesday. For th...

Major shareholders of Seibu Holdings Inc. will release part of their holdings at ¥1,600 per share when the company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on April 23, the company says. The holding c...

The dollar was firmer above ¥101.50 in Tokyo trading Tuesday, but failed to chase higher ground, pressured chiefly by profit-taking. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥101.79-80, up from ¥101.59-61...

The government will allow a household electricity rate hike of around 3.77 percent, on average, by Chubu Electric Power Co., against a 4.95 percent increase sought by the utility to cover rising fuel...

Stocks rebounded from their recent rout on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Tuesday, buoyed by higher U.S. equi-ties and the yen’s weakening, but their topside was capped by a lack of fresh buying incentiv...

NEW YORK (AP)—U.S. stocks mounted a modest rally on Monday, helping investors recover some of the ground lost after a rough finish last week. Investors were bracing for another round of discourag...

HANOI (Jiji Press)—Japan will resume beef and pork exports to Vietnam for the first time in four years, the Japanese Embassy in Hanoi said Monday. The two countries agreed to resume the exports wh...

STOCKHOLM (Bloomberg)—Saab AB said it is in talks to buy ThyssenKrupp AG’s Swedish marine systems division, which would enable the Swedish maker of the Gripen fighter plane to build submarines. ...

LONDON (Bloomberg)—Tesco PLC, Britain’s largest supermarket operator, is returning to the United States with its standalone clothing store F&F, a year after selling its grocery business in the wo...

SHANGHAI (Bloomberg)—China’s banking regulator ordered owners of the nation’s 68 trust companies to be prepared to provide funding or sell their stakes as the risk of defaults rises in the $1.9...

WASHINGTON (AP)—The world’s top financial officials say they believe the global economy is strengthening but that growth remains fragile and open to risks of new geopolitical strife, as in Ukrain...

DUBAI (AP)—Dubai could soon have some new roller coasters to go with its man-made islands and the world’s tallest skyscraper. Newspapers in the Middle Eastern emirate reported Sunday that local ...

LONDON (Bloomberg)—China Minmetals Corp., the state-owned metals trader, led a group that agreed to pay $5.85 billion for Glencore Xstrata PLC’s Las Bambas copper project in Peru as China seeks g...

The dollar traded in a narrow range around ¥101.50 in Tokyo trading Monday in a session dominated by a wait-and-see mood in the absence of fresh trading incentives. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ...

The Nikkei Stock Average lost further ground on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Monday, with buybacks after its tumble last week overshadowed by the weakness of index heavyweights such as Fast Retailing ...

NEW YORK—Westinghouse Electric Co., a major U.S. nuclear power company and Toshiba Corp. subsidiary, said Friday that it had signed a five-year agreement with Ukraine’s state-run nuclear power fi...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—Finance Minister Taro Aso said Friday that Japan’s economy-boosting measures were appreciated by other Group of 20 economies. At a press conference held after a two-day ...

DETROIT (AP)—Documents released by a House subcommittee show that managers and employees at General Motors were often slow to react to safety problems—and that one part of GM often didn’t know ...

An investment fund has been formed to help small and midsize Japanese companies do business in Islamic countries, its managers said Friday. The fund is the first in Japan to follow Islam’s Sharia...

NEW YORK (AP)—Investors drove the U.S. stock market lower for a second straight day Friday as they grew anxious that earnings growth was faltering. Weaker results at JPMorgan Chase dragged bank s...

Sony Corp. said Friday that battery overheating has caused burns to three Vaio Fit 11A notebook personal computers. A total of 25,905 units of the model have been shipped globally, including 3,619 ...

WASHINGTON (Jiji Press)—Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 advanced and emerging economies kicked off a two-day meeting Thursday, in which they will discuss the need for...

Philip Morris Japan K.K. plans to integrate the Philip Morris cigarette brand into the Lark brand, informed sources have told Jiji Press. With demand seen weakening due to the April 1 consumption t...

Corporate goods prices in fiscal 2013 rose 1.9 percent from the previous year, the sharpest increase in five years, on the back of rises in prices of imported items reflecting the yen’s weakening, ...

DETROIT (AP)—General Motors has to repair another part on the 2.6 million small cars already being recalled for an ignition switch defect. That will add to GM’s recall-related expenses. GM on T...

ATHENS (AP)—Buoyant Greek officials hailed the country’s return to the international debt market after four years as an overwhelming success Thursday, with investors snapping up the five-year bon...

Akira Amari, the minister responsible for Trans-Pacific Partnership affairs, plans to visit the United States next week for another round of talks with U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on TPP...

OSAKA (Jiji Press)—Panasonic Corp. has achieved 25.6 percent conversion efficiency for home-use solar cells—the highest in the world. The figure is better than the 22 percent for the company’...

HONG KONG (Bloomberg)—China plans to connect the stock exchanges of Hong Kong and Shanghai, allowing a combined 23.5 billion yuan ($3.8 billion) of daily cross-border trading. Investors will be a...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—A lot more people are about to get a chance to buy Google Glass, the Internet-connected eyewear that has become the hottest accessory in geek fashion. Google will sell the “E...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP)—EBay and billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn have settled their proxy fight ahead of the company’s annual meeting. Icahn and eBay had been in an acrimonious tussle ov...

Sales of liquid crystal display television sets fell 33 percent from a year earlier in the first seven days of April after the consumption tax hike at the month’s outset, market research firm BCN I...

Stocks tumbled on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Friday on worries about heightened tensions over the Ukrainian situation, with the benchmark Nikkei average closing below 14,000 for the first time in about...

SEATTLE (AP)—Online retailer Amazon said Thursday it is buying digital comics company comiXology for an undisclosed sum. Amazon said the acquisition will help it offer more and better digital comi...

The dollar was little changed at levels below ¥102 in Tokyo trading late Friday amid a wait-and-see mood ahead of the weekend. At 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at ¥101.72-73, against ¥101.72-74 ...

DETROIT (AP)—Big U.S. recalls by General Motors and Toyota have put the auto industry on a record pace as companies try to avoid bad publicity and punishment from an increasingly aggressive governm...

NAGOYA (Jiji Press)—Toyota Motor Corp. announced Thursday a new series of gasoline engines that have fuel efficiencies up to 30 percent higher than conventional engines. The 14 new engine models,...

WASHINGTON (AP)—Bank of America Corp. is paying $772 million in fines and refunds to settle regulators’ accusations that it misled customers who bought extra credit-card products and illegally ch...

Seasonally adjusted core machinery orders in February fell 8.8 percent from the previous month, the Cabinet Office said Thursday. Private-sector orders, which are closely watched as a leading indica...

Fujitsu Ltd. is considering selling its Internet service provider unit, Nifty Corp., amid Internet connection fee discount wars prompted by the spread of broadband networks to households, informed so...

The average monthly balance of lending at banks in fiscal 2013 rose 2 percent from the previous year, up for the second consecutive year, reflecting the moderate recovery of the nation’s economy, a...

Domestic sales of used vehicles in fiscal 2013, which ended in March, fell 0.9 percent from the previous year to 3,944,883 units, down for the first time in two years, an industry group said Thursday...

HONG KONG (Bloomberg)—Nobel laureate Edmund Phelps was among a group of economists who called on China to refrain from introducing a stimulus package as pressure grows on the government to take ste...

Shipments of beer and quasi-beer in March rose 16.7 percent from a year earlier to 40.39 million cases, reflecting last-minute demand ahead of the consumption tax hike from 5 percent to 8 percent at ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Bloomberg)—Worldwide personal-computer shipments dropped in the first quarter as consumers in emerging markets opted for smartphones and tablets, while corporate demand helped slow t...