NEW YORK (Jiji Press) — The Japanese and U.S. governments have put off their trade talks until Tuesday morning, Toshimitsu Motegi, economic revitalization minister, said in New York on Monday. U.S...

Donald Trump and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae In signed a renegotiated free trade agreement on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, marking the first time the U.S. president...

WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — Tech giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google are joining forces with international organizations to help identify and head off famines in developing nations using data analysis ...

ZURICH (AFP-Jiji) — The Bank of International Settlements said Sunday the global economy risked a “relapse” of the crisis that rocked it a decade ago, warning there was little “medicine” le...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) — Singapore’s anti-trust watchdog fined ride-hailing firms Grab and Uber a combined 13 million Singaporean dollars ($9.5 million) over their merger deal, and ordered Uber to s...

DUBAI (Bloomberg) — Mecca: Come to fulfill your religious duty. Stay for the shopping. Saudi Arabia, and its developers and retailers, are set to cash in on a spending bonanza fueled by the unique...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) — Spending on digital marketing grew by 44 percent last year in the United States and Britain to $52 billion, a study has found, estimating that global outlays on such tactics a...

MONTREAL (AFP-Jiji) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Sunday it was “very likely” that informal talks aimed at renewing the North American Free Trade Agreement would continue on the...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Brent crude climbed above $80 a barrel after OPEC and its allies signaled less urgency to boost output despite U.S. pressure to temper prices. Futures in London rose as much as...

SAPPORO (Jiji Press) — Hokkaido Electric Power Co. said Monday it is expected to reactivate the No. 4 generator of its Tomato-Atsuma thermal power plant, damaged by a strong earthquake in early Sep...

BEIJING (Bloomberg) — Producers in China are already under stress, even ahead of the implementation of U.S. tariffs, as indicated by an explosion in corporate borrowing that isn’t being captured ...

THE HAGUE (AFP-Jiji) — Fed-up with a growing mountain of stinking disposable nappies, a Dutch firm has started building the country’s first recycling plant to turn poo into profit. Plastic from t...

Ampere Computing, the start-up headed by Intel Corp.’s former president Renee James, on Aug. 18 said it released its first data center chips derived from the same underlying technology as mobile pho...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook and other companies routinely track your online surfing habits to better target ads at you. Two web browsers now want to help you fight back in what’s becoming an escalat...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The Japanese government is considering the possibility of entering tariff talks with the United States, apparently aiming to prevent planned additional U.S. import duties from ...

FRANKFURT (AFP-Jiji) — After years watching Tesla’s electric cars speed ahead while they have been on the defensive over an industry-wide diesel emissions scandal, German high-end manufacturers h...

CHICAGO (Bloomberg) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war with China is turning the global soybean market into a merry-go-round. With Brazilian exports drying up at this time of the year, t...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States is optimistic about finding a way forward in its trade dispute with China, but it does not have a date scheduled for further talks as it assesses Beijing’...

MEXICO CITY (AFP-Jiji) — Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that his country will seek a bilateral trade deal with Canada if negotiations fall through for a new North A...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Hokkaido Electric Power Co.’s failure to balance electricity supply and demand caused the massive blackout that hit the northernmost Japan prefecture of Hokkaido following a...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government, businesses and universities in Japan are considering applying existing private-sector hiring guidelines to students who will join the workforce in spring 2021, ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Members of a major health insurance society for temporary workers and their families voted Friday to dissolve itself by the end of fiscal 2018 due to financial difficulties, so...

HALIFAX, Canada (Jiji Press) — The Group of Seven major industrial countries ended a three-day meeting of their environment, oceans and energy ministers in Halifax, eastern Canada, on Friday, makin...

NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — The Dow rode a wave of bullish investor sentiment to a second straight record on Friday, while the Nasdaq declined on weakness in semiconductor stocks and some tech giants. T...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Department store sales in August dropped 0.2 percent from a year earlier on a same-store basis, down for the second month in a row, an industry group said Friday. Overall sal...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Market people see the possibility of the benchmark Nikkei stock average testing its year-to-date high of 24,124.15 this week aided by a strong market mood. But also highly ant...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Canada and the United States showed scant sign on Thursday of closing a deal to revamp NAFTA, and Canadian officials made clear Washington needed to withdraw a threat of poss...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Economic revitalization minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Friday that Japan and the United States will hold the second round of bilateral trade talks in New York on Monday. At a...

PARIS (Reuters) — Global economic growth has peaked in the face of rising trade frictions and emerging market turbulence, the OECD said on Thursday, as it trimmed its earlier outlook. The world ec...

ANKARA (Reuters) — Turkey sharply cut its growth forecasts for this year and next on Thursday, a reduction that failed to mollify investors who wanted a more sober assessment of the fragile economy...

NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — The Dow and S&P 500 powered to fresh records on Thursday as investors again shrugged off trade war worries. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 1.0 percent at 26,656...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s core consumer price index rose 0.9 percent from a year earlier in August, up for the 20th straight month, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications said Fri...

LONDON (Reuters) — Luxury British carmaker maker Aston Martin is seeking a price tag of up to £5.1 billion ($6.7 billion) in its stock market debut next month and has geared up for any Brexit outc...

Carmaker Volkswagen AG rejected on Thursday a report suggesting it had decided against doing business in Iran after coming under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambassador to Germany, s...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The balance of household financial assets in Japan stood at ¥1,848 trillion at the end of June, up 2.2 percent from a year before, the Bank of Japan said Thursday. Total hou...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The total number of shoppers at convenience stores in Japan in August inched up 0.03 percent from a year before to 1,401.94 million on a same-store basis, posting the first inc...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Insurance payments to individuals affected by a powerful earthquake that hit northern Osaka Prefecture in June reached ¥86.6 billion as of Sept. 12, the General Insurance Asso...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — AT&T Inc. on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to reject the Justice Department’s challenge to its acquisition of Time Warner, saying the government had offered no basi...

BEIJING (AFP-Jiji) — Alibaba founder Jack Ma said his ambitious pledge to create 1 million jobs in the United States had been scuppered by the trade row between Beijing and Washington, Chinese state...

TIANJIN, China (Reuters) — Jack Ma, co-founder of Chinese e-tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., said on Thursday that people should make preparations for 20 years of China-U.S. trade frictions. ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate former Federal Reserve economist Nellie Liang to the U.S. central bank’s board of governors, the White House said on Wednesd...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European authorities said Wednesday they have opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Amazon over the e-commerce giant’s treatment of smaller merchants on its website. ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. said Wednesday that it will launch a miniature version of its original PlayStation game console in a limited quantity in Japan, North America...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japanese vehicle buyers will see a marked increase in opportunities to check more precise mileage data based on an international fuel economy measurement standard. Japanese aut...

About ¥6.7 billion ($60 million) worth of three virtual currencies, including Bitcoin, was taken from the Zaif cryptocurrency exchange operated by Tech Bureau, Corp., the company said Thursday. The...

BEIJING (AP) — The U.S.-China trade war escalated further Tuesday, with China announcing retaliatory tax increases on $60 billion worth of U.S. imports, including coffee, honey and industrial chemi...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said Wednesday that no change has been made to the central bank’s resolve to attain its 2 percent inflation target at an early date. Duri...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — The Bank of Japan left its monetary stimulus program unchanged as it settled in to gauge the impact of its first policy adjustments in nearly two years in July. The central bank...

Tesla Inc. said on Tuesday the U.S. Department of Justice was investigating Chief Executive Elon Musk’s public statements in August that he was considering taking the electric car maker private, the...

DUBLIN (Reuters) — Ireland has fully recovered €13.1 billion ($15.3 billion) in disputed taxes from Apple Inc. plus interest of €1.2 billion which it will hold in an escrow fund pending its appe...

LONDON (AFP-Jiji) — BMW will stop production at its Mini factory in Oxford for several weeks to avoid supply disruption in case of a no-deal Brexit, the German auto giant said Tuesday. The carmake...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — EU antitrust regulators are investigating whether BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen colluded to restrict the rollout of clean emission technology, a move that could lead to hefty fine...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan logged a customs-cleared trade deficit of ¥444.6 billion in August, staying in the red for the second straight month, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. The defici...

JAKARTA (Reuters) — Confidence among Asian companies slumped to the weakest in almost three years in the third quarter as businesses feared blowback from a worsening global trade war, a Thomson Reu...

The alliance of Nissan Motor Co., Group Renault of France and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. will join forces with Google LLC to equip the information displays in their cars with the Android operating syste...

(Reuters) — The United States will spare Apple Inc.’s Watch and other consumer gadgets from the latest round of tariffs on Chinese goods, according to a list of products released by the U.S. Trade...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — French and British fishermen agreed Monday to end their battle over access to scallop-rich waters in the English Channel, three weeks after the long-simmering conflict flared into...

Health insurer Cigna Corp.’s $52 billion acquisition of pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts Holding Co. has passed U.S. antitrust scrutiny, the companies said on Monday, allowing them to proc...

SYDNEY (Reuters) — The Asian Development Bank said Tuesday it is expanding its presence in the Pacific islands, at a time of competition for influence there, opening seven new country offices and e...

WASHINGTON (AFP-Jiji) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday defied warnings and escalated the trade confrontation with China, hitting the country with tariffs starting next week on another $200 b...

WASHINGTON/TIANJIN, China (Reuters) — China said on Tuesday it has no choice but to retaliate against new U.S. trade tariffs, risking even stronger action from U.S. President Donald Trump in an esc...

TOKYO (Reuters) — The start of a second round of trade talks between Japan and the United States will be delayed until after fresh tariffs imposed on China by the United States come into force on S...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Stocks extended gains substantially on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Tuesday, despite the announcement of a third round of extra U.S. tariffs on Chinese exports. The 225-issue ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Despite a much-heralded debut 18 years ago, ¥2,000 bills failed to find wide appeal, leaving them seldom sighted recently. The number of ¥2,000 bills in circulation accounts...

Tesla Inc.’s Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk on Sunday acknowledged that the electric carmaker’s problems have now shifted to delivery logistics from production delays, the latest speed bump in ...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — Machines and automated software will be handling fully half of all workplace tasks within seven years, a new report from the World Economic Forum forecasts. But the group said ...

BEIJING (Reuters) — China’s home prices accelerated in August at the fastest pace in nearly two years, a sign that Beijing’s efforts to boost a slowing economy may once again be heating up frot...

NEW YORK (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc. is conducting an investigation into employees that are said to offer sellers on its e-commerce program with an advantage by providing confidential internal da...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) — Indian refiners will cut their monthly crude loadings from Iran for September and October by nearly half from earlier this year as New Delhi works to win waivers on the oil exp...

LONDON (Bloomberg) — U.K. house prices rebounded in September amid signs of a pickup in sales of London’s most expensive properties. Prices rose 0.7 percent this month, matching the average for ...

SAPPORO (Jiji Press) — Hokkaido Electric Power Co. said Monday that the No. 1 unit at its major thermal power plant will resume operations Tuesday or Wednesday, earlier than previously expected. T...

Heading toward correcting unfair trade practices and keeping China in mind, Japan, the United States and the European Union are to start formulating new rules for the World Trade Organization to regul...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to announce new tariffs on about $200 billion of Chinese imports as early as Monday, a senior administration official told Reuters on Sat...

PARIS (Bloomberg) — Supervisors need to keep a close eye on shadow banking and emerging market debt a decade on from the fall of Lehman Brothers, Bank of France Gov. Francois Villeroy de Galhau sai...

Build it and they will come. Maybe. President Xi Jinping’s grand plan to bind Hong Kong and Macau with the southern tip of China using the world’s longest bridge and a cross-border bullet train f...

NEW YORK (Reuters) — German luxury vehicle maker BMW AG plans more deals with mining companies to secure electric vehicle battery materials, and is open to forming alliances to share the costs of de...

NEW YORK (AFP-Jiji) — Nike shares reached an all-time high last week as data pointed to an uptick in online sales following the sporting goods giant’s envelope-pushing ad campaign featuring athle...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. retail sales barely rose in August as consumers slowed their spending after a robust month of shopping in July. The Commerce Department said Friday that the value of purchas...

BEIJING/CARACAS (Reuters) — Venezuela gave China another stake in the OPEC member’s oil industry and signed several other deals in the energy sector, but Beijing made no mention of new funds for C...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Industry minister Hiroshige Seko said Friday that the government will scale down a power-saving campaign in Hokkaido implemented after a powerful earthquake earlier this month....

MOSCOW (Reuters) — The Russian central bank raised rates for the first time since late 2014 on Friday and promised not to buy foreign currency on the market until the end of this year as it acknowle...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The government has decided to more than halve the country’s solar power feed-in tariffs around the mid-2020s, according to informed sources. The move is aimed at reducing t...

SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said Thursday that he is giving $2 billion to start a fund that will open preschools in low-income neighborhoods and give money to nonprofits that h...

NAGOYA (Jiji Press) — Toyota Motor Corp. expects its global vehicle production to hit a record high for the second straight year in 2018, informed sources said. The Japanese automaker revised up ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Citizen Watch Co. has received a flood of preorders for a new watch since Naomi Osaka won her U.S. Open title last week, because she wore the model during the prestigious game. ...

SASKATOON, Canada (Reuters) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday he wanted a good NAFTA deal as soon as possible, but did not answer directly when asked if he agreed with Washi...

BEIJING (Bloomberg) — China’s economic momentum weakened a notch in August, with a continued slowdown in investment overshadowing solid retail sales and industrial production data. Fixed-asset in...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve reported Wednesday that its latest survey of business conditions nationwide found rising concerns over the impact Trump administration trade policies could hav...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — The Bank of Japan will keep monetary policy unchanged at its Sept. 18-19 meeting, according to all economists polled by Bloomberg. A majority point to the central bank staying on...

YOKOHAMA (Reuters) — Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. said on Thursday it had signed U.S. Open champion Naomi Osaka as its next brand ambassador, tapping the tennis star’s youth, drive and Jap...

BEIJING (Jiji Press) — Visiting Japanese business leaders and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang agreed on the need to maintain free trade at a meeting Wednesday. The meeting was attended by Japan-China ...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — The number of new condominium units put up for sale in the greater Tokyo area in August dropped 28.5 percent from a year earlier to 1,502, down for the second consecutive month...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s core machinery orders rose at their fastest pace in over two years in July thanks mainly to robust spending on labor-saving technologies amid shortages of workers, th...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan’s producer price index for August rose 3.0 percent from a year before, up for the 20th straight month, due chiefly to higher crude oil prices, the Bank of Japan said Th...

TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Totoyamichi, a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant operator affiliated with Japan’s Skylark Holdings Co., has been shutting all 24 outlets since Monday after food poisoning occurr...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) — Two major global rating agencies downgraded issuers linked to Chinese regional and local governments on Wednesday, drawing attention to credit risks as Beijing continues its le...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) — American companies in China are being hurt by tariffs in the growing trade war between Washington and Beijing, according to a survey of hundreds of firms, prompting the U.S. bus...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — After months of waging a behind-the-scenes war against President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs that have escalated far beyond what business groups once imagined, more than 8...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — The Turkish Central Bank is expected to raise interest rates on Thursday to calm a currency crisis, but forecasts for the scale of the increase vary widely as the bank balances...

STRASBOURG (Reuters) — The European Union’s chief executive on Wednesday proposed hefty fines on Google, Facebook, Twitter and other online platforms if they fail to remove extremist content with...

PARIS (AFP-Jiji) — French railway operator SNCF said Wednesday it was planning to introduce prototypes of driverless mainline trains for passengers and freight by 2023, and include them in scheduled...

BEIJING (Bloomberg) — The tariff battle with the United States will probably cost China 700,000 jobs, or more in the event of further escalation. The job losses would come if the United States impo...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) — Argentina will maintain its benchmark interest rate at 60 percent until at least December, the central bank said Tuesday, adding that it would take any measures necessary to...

SEOUL (Reuters) — South Korea’s unemployment rate hit an eight-year high in August as mandatory minimum wages rose, adding to economic policy frustrations and political challenges for President Mo...

MUMBAI (Bloomberg) — Indian companies lured by Japan’s near-record low interest rates and easier availability of funds are raising the most yen-denominated loans in more than a decade as dollar le...

TOKYO (Bloomberg) — Barclays PLC became the latest European bank to kick off a yen bond deal on Tuesday after HSBC Holdings PLC and BNP Paribas SA tapped yen investors in the past month for low-cost...

TOKYO (Reuters) — Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will likely hold a second round of trade talks on Sept. 21 in the United Stat...