Tag: Japans

2024-09-29

Shigeru Ishiba wins LDP election, set to become Japan’s next prime minister

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Shigeru Ishiba, Japan’s former defense minister, delivers his campaign speech for the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) presidential election in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024.  Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba has won his fifth bid to become the leader of Japan’s ruling party on Friday, lining him up to become the country’s…

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2024-08-03

How Japan’s yen could be ripping through U.S. stocks

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A man walks past an electronic quotation board displaying the exchange rate for the Japanese yen against the US dollar in Tokyo on August 2, 2024 Kazuhiro Nogi | Afp | Getty Images The key driver of global markets is the yen exchange rate, according to one financial historian, who warned the trend should concern those “entirely focused on…

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