Japan bonds, yen selling off on Takaichi's expansionary policy PM vows in election campaign to suspend sales tax on food Takaichi responding to intervention chatter, Bessent comments on yields Some ...

On December 26, 2025, the Japanese government approved a ¥122.3 trillion budget for fiscal 2026, which is a 6.2% year-on-year increase. The budget is the first to exceed ¥120 trillion and marks a ...

China ended its dynamic zero-COVID-19 epidemic response policy late last year, and by January-end, the sales revenue of various consumer sectors nationwide had climbed by 12.2 percent year-on-year ...

Using official data, this paper analyses the fiscal effects of Karnataka’s five guarantee schemes implemented in 2023–24 through a regional macroeconomic framework. Employing a spending multiplier ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives at the premier's office in Tokyo on Dec. 26, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's Cabinet on Friday approved a record 122.31 trillion yen ($783 billion) draft ...

Martin Schulz, chief policy economist at Fujitsu, breaks down the Bank of Japan's latest move to raise rates for the second time this year. However he doesn't expect the BOJ to lift borrowing costs ...

1554 ET – U.S. Treasury yields ended slightly higher, and the 10-year yield rose on the week despite a Fed meeting Wednesday that was not quite as hawkish as some investors expected. One outcome ...

Drawing on an extensive literature, this paper examines the extent to which expansionary fiscal policy poses a challenge to containing inflation. It does so by assessing how inflation responds to ...

Fiscal management in Georgia is sound, underpinned by robust public finance systems and fiscal rules, but risks remain, particularly from state-owned enterprises (SOEs), according to the World Bank ...

China’s Finance Minister Lan Fo’an pledged to implement a stronger and proactive fiscal policy over the next five years in an effort to support the country’s economic growth, state media Xinhua News ...

After decades of ultra-low yields and chronic deflation, Japan’s government bond market is stirring. For two decades, Japan’s fiscal framework has centered on a primary-balance rule: the idea that the ...