Premarket trading on Wall Street was relatively listless Friday ahead of the government's latest inflation report.

STORY: Japan's former defence minister Shigeru Ishiba was set on Friday to become the country's new leader, after winning a ...

Ishiba Shigeru, right, with Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, left, and other candidates, celebrates after Ishiba was ...

Discover how Shigeru Ishiba's victory in Japan's leadership race is impacting the yen and Japan's monetary policies.

The person chosen to lead Japan's governing party, and become prime minister next week, is a veteran politician with deep ...

A crucial party election in Japan on Friday will determine the nation’s new prime minister. The vote by the ruling Liberal ...

Japanese stock futures fell, while the yen rallied, after Shigeru Ishiba was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. The former defense minister has voiced support for the Bank of Japan ...

Jeffrey Rubin, the president and director of research at Westport, Conn.-based Birinyi Associates - who now owns the firm following the death of the legendary Laszlo Birinyi - is among those who is ...

TOKYO — (AP) — Former Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba won an election to lead Japan's governing party Friday and will become ...

Hong Kong and Shanghai stock markets soared again Friday with the latter index recording its strongest weekly gain in 16 years on hopes China would unveil yet more measures to ...

Japan’s next Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is a self-proclaimed policy wonk on defense matters whose friends consider him to ...

China's economic stimulus measures have propelled global stocks to record highs. The Japanese yen strengthened as Shigeru Ishiba emerged as Japan's next likely prime minister. Meanwhile, futures ...