Shinzo Abe

The CurrencyShares Japanese Yen Trust (NYSE: FXY) is up almost 7 percent year to date, making it one of the best-performing major currency exchange-traded funds. Predictably, yen strength and dollar weakness have kept a lid on the performances of Japan ETFs, particularly currency hedged fare, such...

Over the past several years, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has received plenty of credit when Japanese equities rise and the yen falters. Likewise, when the yen rises, weighing on Japanese stocks, some market observers are quick to chide Abe. This year, the yen has traded higher against the...

After a tumultuous and volatile start to 2016, Asia's market calmed down and then took a back seat on the international stage, which became fixated on the Brexit vote and then President-elect Donald Trump's run to the White House. Here is Bloomberg's look at how Asia's largest economies performed...

Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe recently met with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, and the Japanese government described the discussion as marking an "extremely good start" between the two leaders. Mouhammed Choukeir, the chief investment officer of Kleinwort Hambros, told Bloomberg TV that Abe...

Japan is well known to be the world's fastest-aging population, but recent statistics paint an even more dire picture. According to Bloomberg, the number of people living in Japan fell by more than a quarter of a million to 125.9 million. This also marks the seventh consecutive year where the...

According to Bloomberg, there is close to $10 trillion worth of bonds yielding less than zero and more than $6 trillion of the total is Japanese government debt. Meanwhile, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was told by an adviser Etsuro Honda that "now is the time to introduce helicopter money." "...

Bloomberg’s Simone Foxman reported how George Soros’s latest predictions have played out. The report was published after Soros, “the 85-year-old billionaire who broke the Bank of England in 1992,” came out of retirement to short U.S. equities hands-on. Barrick Gold Corp: Win...

Japan's Nikkei index lost 2.32 percent on Thursday after losing 1.62 percent on Wednesday. Investors were reacting to the government's decision to postpone a 2017 sales tax hike to 2019. The tax increase to 10 percent from the current 8 percent was set to kick in April of next year. In...

South Korea, Asia's fourth-largest economy, has been a favorite of investors daring enough to take positions in single-country exchange-traded funds— particularly, because one does not need to be all that daring to be involved with South Korean stocks. Relative to other emerging markets,...

When it comes to developed markets with impressive buyback and dividend resumes, the United States is a leader, but other markets, such as Australia and the UK, have solid track records of initiating and growing shareholder rewards. Japan is a different case. While the ability of Japanese companies...

Japan's economy officially entered into a recession in the third quarter. Japan said that its economy contracted 0.8 percent (on an annualized basis) in the third quarter after declining 0.7 percent in the second quarter. Japan has now faced a recession four times since the global...

Standard & Poor’s downgraded Japan’s credit rating from AA- to A+. The firm justified the demotion as a sign of disapproval of Prime Minister Shinzō Abe’s economic strategy – often called Abenomics. Shares of the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSE: EWJ), WisdomTree Japan...

On Monday, the U.S. Olympic Committee announced that it would replace Boston with another U.S. city in the nation's bid to host the 2024 Olympic games. The Massachusetts city would have been up against places like Paris, Rome and Budapest to host the games, but ultimately concerns about sky high...

On Wednesday, U.S. lawmakers moved one step closer to passing a bill that will fast track trade deals through Congress, something that will benefit Obama's initiative to create a trade partnership with Asia. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch has been positive about the...

Economic data for February indicates that the world's third-largest economy is still going through a sluggish period as it tries to cope with weak household and business spending and near-zero inflation levels. According to Marketwatch, "Japanese industrial production contracted for the...