The Latest Breaking News from Shunichi Suzuki

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU24) are down -0.04%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU24) are up +0.05% this morning as investors awaited a fresh batch of U.S. economic data and braced for Nvidia’s financial report due on Wednesday.

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU24) are up +0.14%, and September Nasdaq 100 E-Mini futures (NQU24) are up +0.28% this morning, rebounding slightly from Monday’s tech-driven losses on Wall Street, while investors awaited a fresh batch of U.S. economic data and braced for Nvidia’s financial report due on Wednesday.

Japan and South Korea have agreed to revive a currency swap agreement for times of crisis

Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki and South Korean Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho will meet on June 29 in Tokyo for the next bilateral meeting, almost two months after the first talk between the two countries' financial leaders in seven years.

Niigata (Japan) (AFP) - Support for war-torn Ukraine topped the agenda at G7 finance talks on Thursday in Japan, where ministers and central bankers also weighed concerns ranging from banking uncertainty to US debt default fears.

Japan will unveil a plan on Thursday to mobilise $1 billion to help countries surrounding Ukraine accept refugees from the war-torn country, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Thursday.

Japan and South Korea held their first finance leaders' meeting in seven years on Tuesday and agreed to resume regular dialogue as tensions in the wider region and slowing growth prod them to increase co-operation and mend strained relations.

Japan will invite some emerging nations to an outreach meeting at the Group of Seven advanced countries Japan chairs next month in the city of Niigata, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday.

France, India and Japan have teamed up and invited others to join in the rescue of Sri Lanka’s crippled economy, a crisis blamed on mindless spending by the island’s rulers of money borrowed from China.