Wednesday marks the opening day of the 2025 West Virginia Legislative Session, and the day will end with Governor Patrick ...

These are collectively known as “Japanese government bonds” (JGBs ... The interest rate that these bonds pay is printed on the certificate. Each year, the interest is calculated, split in half, and ...

I remember Guy Keleny, my predecessor as author of this column, once tried to argue that plethora means a harmful excess of ...

By Stephen Smoot  Last week, Governor Patrick Morrisey took to the podium for the first time as chief executive of the State of West Virginia.  Morrisey opened by greeting statewide officials both ...

On February 3, the president declared a “national emergency” and invoked his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose a 10% tariff on all imports from China ...

They pay an interest rate that is written on the bond certificate and the Greek government promises to repay the full ... a percentage of GDP is now the second-highest in the world after Japan. Start ...

Three of Japan’s top life insurers booked a combined ¥467 billion ($3 billion) of trading losses on sales of domestic bonds ...

Hawkish comments from the Bank of Japan and sticky inflation are lifting bond yields to multi-year highs and pushing forward ...

Similarly, countries like Germany and Japan also issue sovereign bonds like Bunds and JGBs (Japanese Government Bonds), respectively. Sovereign bonds are available in various maturities ...

Japan’s corporate bond market is booming, as an economic rebound and plans to get ahead of higher interest rates encourage a ...

Nights out drinking can often end badly. But in Japan, they have a habit of going spectacularly wrong for government employees – who on at least two occasions in recent years have lost sensitive ...