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Inc. Yahoo! Japan Corporation (1996–2023) Yahoo! Japan (ヤフー, Yafū) is a Japanese web portal. It was the most-visited website in Japan, nearing monopolistic status. [1] According to The Japan Times, as of 2012, Yahoo! Japan had a footprint on the internet market in Japan.
Yahoo! Japan was a founding member of the Japan Association of New Economy (JANE, at the time named Japan e-business association), a Japanese e-business association led by Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani, in February 2010; Rakuten later withdrew from the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in June 2011 and made moves to make JANE become a rival to Keidanren.
The Nikkei 225, or the Nikkei Stock Average ( Japanese: 日経平均株価, Hepburn: Nikkei heikin kabuka), more commonly called the Nikkei or the Nikkei index [1] [2] ( / ˈnɪkeɪ, ˈniː -, nɪˈkeɪ / ), is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE). It is a price-weighted index, operating in the Japanese Yen (JP¥), and its ...
The Japanese Nikkei 225 index tanked more than 12% on Monday, marking its worst performance since 1987. The S&P 500 sank more than 3% and shed $1.3 trillion in value, notching its worst day since ...
The crashing yen even led the Bank of Japan to intervene at times, but ultra-low rates encourage capital flight. And now that the BOJ is raising rates, the engines are reversing, along with the ...
Japanese shares soared Tuesday, clawing back some of their record losses from the previous day and underpinning a patchy recovery on global markets. Japanese stocks rebound from worst crash since ...
And even after rising on Monday, perhaps due to an undisclosed intervention from the Bank of Japan, the dollar is now worth more than 157 Japanese yen, compared to just 129 in January of 2023.
The yen ( Japanese: 円, symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan. It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar and the euro. [2] It is also widely used as a third reserve currency after the US dollar and the euro.