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WALL STREET

The yen trades in the ?162 range against the dollar in the afternoon of the June 30.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jul 21, 2026
Â鶹´«Ã½ next economic challenge: bringing yen home
Now, with the yen seen as problematically weak, there are overdue reasons to encourage local capital to stay here.
This handout picture shows cocaine seized by Spanish police from a ship off the Canary Islands, following the detention of its 23-member crew without bail in Europe's largest-ever bust of the drug, in Madrid on May 8.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2026
A cocaine bust in Spain leads all the way to Wall Street
Investigations uncovered a network linking financiers with Wall Street connections, an Irish fintech trading crypto assets, luxury Dubai real estate and multiple offshore lenders.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington on July 18, 1990.
BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jun 23, 2026
Greenspan¡¯s legacy: From irrational exuberance to 2008 crisis
Some saw the Federal Reserve chair as a driving force for change at the Fed and a guiding light for investors, even as the 2008-09 global financial crisis clouds his legacy.
Executives and employees of SpaceX and others dressed as astronauts cheer the closing bell at the Nasdaq stock exchange in midtown Manhattan on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 17, 2026
SpaceX overtakes Amazon in value as post-IPO rally reaches 49%
Its market capitalization is roughly $8 billion higher than Amazon¡¯s at the close of trading on Tuesday, making it the fifth-largest stock in the world.
SpaceX signage at the Nasdaq MarketSite after the SpaceX initial public offering (IPO) in New York on Friday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 13, 2026
SpaceX surges past $2 trillion in Nasdaq debut, closes in on Amazon
The launch was smoother ?than many observers expected, with trading kicking off late on Friday morning without any hiccups.
OpenAI, founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab, burst into the mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022. It has since restructured as a for-profit corporation.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2026
OpenAI makes move to go public one week after rival Anthropic
The company says it has ¡°not decided on timing yet¡± for any potential debut.
Mega-IPO candidates including SpaceX are expected to face a long road to entry to the S&P 500 Index, after the company that makes the rules rejected a proposal that included relaxing the requirement that they be profitable.
BUSINESS / Markets / FOCUS
Jun 7, 2026
SpaceX and other mega IPOs may wait years to join the S&P 500
S&P Dow Jones Indices¡¯ index committee declined to remove a rule that companies generate positive net income for the past year.
The SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy Booster creates sound waves as it lifts off on its 12th test flight from the SpaceX launch complex in Starbase, Texas, on May 22.
BUSINESS / Tech / FOCUS
May 26, 2026
SpaceX debut draws a crowd, but few recent hot IPOs outpace the market
The space exploration company is expected to target ?a $1.75 trillion valuation, but an analysis shows there is ?no guarantee investors ?will make money.
Unlike his predecessors, U.S. President Donald Trump didn¡¯t divest or move his assets into a blind trust with an independent overseer.
BUSINESS / Markets
May 18, 2026
Trump¡¯s more than 3,700 trades astonish Wall Street insiders
In the first quarter, the U.S. president bought at least $1 million each in companies including Nvidia, Oracle, Microsoft, Boeing and Costco Wholesale.
A chat window for chatbot Grok. Musk¡¯s artificial intelligence venture, xAI, is moving with urgency to boost revenue by selling chatbot subscriptions and access to its computing resources before SpaceX¡¯s expected IPO next month.
BUSINESS / Tech
May 14, 2026
Musk¡¯s xAI races to get Wall Street firms to use Grok chatbot
The blitz forms part of a push to bolster revenue ahead of parent company SpaceX¡¯s initial public offering.
Global stocks surged last week, pushing the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 to fresh records.
BUSINESS / Markets
May 11, 2026
Momentum-obsessed traders seek clues on Iran truce
Trump labeled Iran¡¯s latest response to his proposal to end the 10-week conflict with the U.S. as unacceptable.
The New York Stock Exchange on March 5
BUSINESS / Markets
Apr 26, 2026
¡®He has the market in a chokehold¡¯: Stocks swing as Trump posts.
Since taking office last January, Trump¡¯s comments to reporters and elsewhere have been the primary driver behind five of the best and worst days in the S&P 500 Index.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks at a news conference following the first launch of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2018.
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 21, 2026
Musk¡¯s SpaceX tries to woo Wall Street with analyst meetings this week, sources say
The company is looking to raise $75 billion, in what would be the world¡¯s ?biggest-ever initial public offering, with executives targeting a late June trading debut.
Despite repeated technological upheavals, finance has preserved its profits by reinventing fee-generating services. But the rise of AI could ultimately render much of the industry irrelevant.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 1, 2026
AI threatens the finance industry¡¯s perpetual profit machine
The utopian promise of AI is abundance, but the only guaranteed beneficiaries are the super elites that own the machines.
Brian Yun, co-founder and CEO of Woodstock, at the company's headquarters in Tokyo. According to the company, 62% of its users are under the age of 40, and 56% have no prior investing experience.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 16, 2026
Tokyo startup betting free trades and small lots will draw young investors
Woodstock allows customers to trade U.S. stocks 24 hours a day.
Tokyo-based PayPay priced the initial public offering of American depositary receipts at $16 apiece for its U.S. stock exchange debut.
BUSINESS / Companies
Mar 12, 2026
PayPay and SoftBank raise $879.8 million in payments firm¡¯s U.S. IPO
It is the biggest listing for a Japanese company on a U.S. stock exchange in a decade.
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange at the opening bell on Monday. The biggest risk for markets is the uncertainty over what happens next in Iran.
BUSINESS / Markets
Mar 3, 2026
Investors wrestle with Middle East curveball scenarios
The biggest risk for markets is the uncertainty over what happens next in Iran, given the complexities of the Islamic Republic¡¯s ruling system.
The New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, New York. Bank of America's February fund-manager survey showed investors switched from U.S. equities to emerging market equities at the fastest rate in five years.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 24, 2026
From ¡®buy America¡¯ to ¡®bye America¡¯: More U.S. investors are spending elsewhere
Bank of America¡¯s February fund-manager survey showed investors switched from U.S. equities to emerging market equities at the fastest rate in five years.
PayPay's Nasdaq listing could be the largest ever by a Japanese company.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 13, 2026
PayPay files for U.S. IPO and Nasdaq listing
The biggest mobile payments service in Japan is also seeking to expand its business in the U.S.
A screen displays the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other trading numbers following the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on Friday.
BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 7, 2026
Dow surges above 50,000 for first time as U.S. stocks regain mojo
Stocks shrugged off worries connected to AI companies while traders focused on the prospects for U.S. growth and Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
Yasukuni Shrine introduces ban on military attire and cosplay
People gather in front of thousands of lanterns on display at Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on July 15 during the Mitama Matsuri, one of the capital's largest summer o-Bon festivals.
Many Indonesians named after Japanese anime characters
Some people in Indonesia are named Doraemon, the name of a lead character of the blockbuster anime series with the same title.
Strong wind and heavy rain forecast as tropical storm approaches Japan
Tropical Storm Chan-hom is expected to make landfall in northern Kanto between late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.
Â鶹´«Ã½ brewers experiment with a secret ingredient: music
At Smoke Craft, a craft beer brewery in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, music isn't just a background to the brewing process ¡ª it's an ingredient.
As countries ban social media for children, Japan mulls a different approach
Data from NTT Docomo¡¯s Mobile Society Research Institute released in June found that 55% of respondents across all age groups said they fiddled with their phones when they had nothing to do, even when another person was in front of them.
J. League enters new era as league kicks off first fall-spring campaign
Players from each J. League club pose during a kickoff event on Monday ahead of the start of the 2026-27 campaign.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
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