TOKYO – As Japan staggers out of 2025, its financial markets make for quite a tantalizing split screen. On one screen, the Nikkei 225 Stock Average is ending the year at all-time highs on optimism that the government can avoid recession. On the other screen, the “bond vigilantes” are pushing 10-year yields to the highest […]
Tokyo’s Truss-moment flirtation augurs poorly for Takaichi’s 2026
Focusing more on a war of words with China than on economic retooling suggests she, like UK’s Truss, will be a short-timer
