Ministry of Finance

Despite the warnings from Japanese officials, speculation persists that the Ministry of Finance may be still several steps away from conducting a yen-selling intervention, a course of action it has avoided for five and a half years. Some...

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The pillars of the government debt market are crumbling. Little wonder that the Ministry of Finance has begun advertising bonds in Tokyo taxis, featuring Koyuki from The Last Samurai. If Japan's bond rates rise to global levels of 3 to 4 per...

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In his 10 months as finance minister, Fujii permitted the Ministry of Finance to directly intervene in currency markets through the Bank of Japan in order to stem the yen's rise against the dollar, sometimes in joint action with the U.S.

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...economy may be easing. Exports were down 30.7 percent in September from a year earlier, the 12th straight month of declines, but the lowest decrease since November, the Ministry of Finance said Thursday. Exports totaled 5.1 trillion...

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...30.7% on year in September TOKYO (MarketWatch) -- Japan's exports fell 30.7% in September, compared with a year ago, as shipments to the U.S. fell by 34.1%, data from the Ministry of Finance showed Thursday. The fall in total exports came...

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...ended June 30. In the past, an export-damaging yen rise would have sparked heavy yen-selling intervention by the Ministry of Finance, whose powerful bureaucrats play a key role in setting Japan's foreign-exchange policy. Tokyo sold an...

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...for further upside moves. Capital flows data released Thursday by Japan's Ministry of Finance showed that foreign investors bought a net 424.7 billion yen ($4.5 billion) of Japanese equities last week. It wasn't always so: Foreign...

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