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Posted on 18 September 2015. Tags: ¥119.50, below, Dollar, Falls, hike, puts, rate, Tokyo

Dollar falls below ¥119.50 in Tokyo as Fed puts off rate hike The dollar slipped below ¥119.50 in Tokyo trading Friday, dampened by an overnight decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to keep interest rates unchanged as well as stock price falls in Japan and abroad. At 5 p.m., the dollar stood at ¥119.42-43, down […]

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Posted on 26 April 2014. Tags: 22yr, after, April, core, High, hike, Japan’s, rises, Tokyo

Tokyo core CPI rises to 22-yr high after Japan’s April tax hike TOKYO (Reuters) – Core consumer prices in Tokyo, a leading indicator of nationwide inflation, rose 2.7 per cent in April from a year earlier to mark the biggest gain in more than two decades, offering the first glimpse on how Japan’s sales tax […]

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Posted on 26 April 2013. Tags: 201314, domestic, hike, Japan’s, Sales, Tokyo, year

Japan’s Tokyo Gas to hike 2013-14 domestic LNG sales by 32% on year Japan’s Tokyo Gas said Friday it plans to increase its domestic LNG sales by 31.7% year on year to 790,000 mt in fiscal 2013-14 as it expects to see an incremental supply to Hokkaido Gas in the north. Tokyo Gas, which started […]

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Posted on 13 August 2012. Tags: election, faces, hike, Japan, pressure

Japan OKs tax hike; PM faces election pressure Japanese lawmakers line up to vote in the upper house of parliament in Tokyo Friday, Aug. 10, 2012. The parliament passed a bill Friday to double the country’s consumption tax over the next three years. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY … Full News here – Read […]

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