Shinzo Abe

Falling oil prices have wreaked havoc on producing nations like Russia and Nigeria, but importing nation Japan has seen crude’s recent slide as an opportunity to boost sales and get its economy back on track. Three such Japanese sectors set to benefit are explored below. 1. Auto Industry...

After Japan released reported worse than expected GDP numbers earlier this week, the country has technically entered into an economic recession. But what exactly is going on in Japan right now? Benzinga asked a few prominent analysts to explain: Slow Growth Economist and author of “...

U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday, lifting the Dow and S&P 500 to new all-time highs as investors found positives in data releases, including the NAHB Housing Market Index, which rose more than expected. In Europe, German investor confidence saw the largest increase in 11 months while European...

Japan shocked the world by announcing very disappointing economic news earlier this week. The economic numbers were so poor, in fact, they signaled Japan's slide back into recession, and the news prompted the Japanese Prime Minister to call for an early election on December 14 in an attempt...

U.S. stocks were mildly higher on Thursday as major indices were little changed at the closing bell. The S&P 500 and Dow both traded at new highs following Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.'s (NYSE: WMT) premarket earnings. Data from the Labor Department showed initial claims for state...

U.S. markets were little changed at the end of the trading day. The bond market was closed on Tuesday to commemorate Veterans Day. Typically speaking, the bond market is a major driver of the equities market. When the bond market is closed, equities volume tends to be lower in a less volatile...

The bulls (or perhaps more accurately, the bull algos) put on quite a show again on Tuesday. For the fourth day in a row, stocks rocketed higher and the S&P 500 finished with the best one-day gain in more than a year. Not bad for a market that had been left for dead four days ago, right?...

Following the election of billionaire Petro Poroshenko as President of Ukraine, diplomatic tensions seemed to be easing as Moscow agreed to recognize the vote; marking a turning point for the region’s crisis. Poroshenko has indicated that he is willing to engage with Russia in order to end the...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took a step closer to his goal of a more aggressive investment strategy on Tuesday when the nation began to overhaul its public pension fund. The $1.26 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund, the largest of its kind, is expected to rely less on government...

The recent agreement between Ukraine and Russia to deescalate growing tension between the two nations will be put to the test just days after it was made. On Sunday evening, a gun Battle in a pro-Russian separatist controlled Ukrainian city ended with at least three dead. The city’s mayor has...

Ukrainian officials have given pro-Russian separatists a strict deadline to disarm or face a “full scale anti-terrorist operation." Ahead of the Monday morning deadline, the United Nation’s Security Council called an emergency meeting on Sunday night to discuss the rising tension between Moscow...

With the Dow Jones Industrial Average on its way to a 26 percent gain this year, many investors are wondering if the market is beginning to overheat. However, bargain shares with relatively low valuations have been posting larger than average gains, which some take as a sign of the market's...

The Japanese Nikkei rose to a six year high on Wednesday and many money managers are expecting the country’s stocks to push even higher. The Nikkei has risen 54 percent so far in 2013, buoyed by expectations that Japan will emerge from almost two decades of deflation. Most expect the Japanese...