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ارتفع المؤشر نيكي القياسي في بداية التعاملات في بورصة طوكيو للأوراق المالية يوم الخميس. وصعد نيكي 0.25 في المئة مسجلا 28522.46 نقطة، في حين تقدم المؤشر توبكس الأوسع نطاقا 0.04 في المئة ليصل إلى 1981.53 نقطة.

Valentin Marinov, director of FX strategy at Citi, says U.S. President Barack Obama's trade talks with Japan could encourage more quantitative easing from the Bank of Japan, while New Zealand's interest rate hikes make long kiwi/yen attractive. more...

Markets may be looking to Japan's central bank to goose the economy, but easing may have reached its limits, with the next phase in corporate hands. more...

CNBC's Rick Santelli looks at internals of Japan's yen vs. the U.S dollar. more...

Geoffrey Yu, FX strategist at UBS, says the market is over-expectant about the possibility that the Bank of Japan will introduce more aggressive easing. more...

Marshall Gittler, Head Of Global FX Strategy, IronFX Financial Services, expects the Bank of Japan to take more action this year. He also discusses the outlook for emerging Asian currencies. more...

CNBC's Rick Santelli discusses the latest action in the bond market and interest rates in Japan. more...

The yen was pinned at a four-year trough against the euro and a six-month low on the dollar early in Asia on Friday. more...

The dollar greeted the Asian session on Friday at its highest in nearly four weeks against a basket of major currencies. more...

The dollar was a touch firmer in Asia on Monday as the euro took a knock from more aid rumblings over Greece. more...

Many cash-rich Japanese groups are facing losses because of financial derivatives sold in the unsupervised, OTC market. more...

South Korea and Japan agreed to expand their currency swaps more than five fold to help stabilise the won and financial markets, the Japanese Ministry of Finance said on Wednesday.* more...

Japan wants the Group of 20 finance leaders to discuss what more the group can do to help stabilize Europe's debt crisis, Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Tuesday, reiterating his call for further European efforts to restore market confidence. more...

Hopes rise for euro debt resolution and lift risk-on currencies — it's time for your FX Fix. more...

Honda Motor will halve exports of vehicles made in Japan over 10 years to tackle the rising yen, a newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing an interview with the automaker's chief executive. more...

Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi urged Europe on Tuesday to come up with a transparent scheme to resolve the Greek debt crisis, to help stabilize the world economy and keep the euro from weakening too much against the yen. more...

A downgrade down under and Germans aren't shopping enough - it's time for your Friday FX Fix. more...

Japanese retail sales fell 2.6 percent in August from a year earlier, down for the first time in three months, as a rebound from the March earthquake looks to have run its course. more...

Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi said on Tuesday he would not rule out Japan sharing some of the burden related to a bailout scheme for Greece, provided that Europe mapped out a rational plan that could ease market jitters. more...

Nissan Motor Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said the Japanese government's efforts to rein in the rise of the yen had failed, forcing manufacturers to reduce investment in Japan and shift output elsewhere. more...