One of America’s closest allies recently raised eyebrows for threatening to fire the ultimate financial weapon against Washington in trade talks: Dumping US debt.

Mitsubishi stopped building vehicles in the US in 2015, ultimately selling its production facility in Normal, Illinois, to ...

The central bank stood pat earlier this month after a cycle of rate hikes since March 2024 and halving its economic growth ...

Another day, another piece of evidence that President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with friends and foes is hurting the global economy. Today: Japan’s central bank cut its economic growth ...

Proxies to Japanese pension funds bought a record amount of foreign equities in April, when U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan halved its growth forecast for the Japanese economy as U.S. tariffs begin to bite, highlighting how ...

Hong Kong's benchmark Hang Seng Index closed 3% higher after both the U.S. and China chose to de-escalate a budding trade war ...

Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into trade wars abroad — all while on-again ...

Donald Trump’s quixotic trade war appears to have entered the tilting-at-windmills phase as the U.S. president sees “big, ...

Japan was unlikely to fire this big bazooka in the trade war anyway, since selling US Treasuries is considered an extreme move — one that would likely backfire, experts say. Still, the short ...

highlighting how President Trump’s efforts to rewire U.S. trade are hitting economies around the world. The central bank said it expects Japan’s economy to expand just 0.5% in the fiscal year ...