The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged and refrained from unveiling any new measures as policy makers focused on the risk that recent economic improvements will fail to translate into a sustainable recovery. Governor Masaaki Shirakawa and his colleagues held the key overnight lending rate at 0.1 % by a in sync vote, the central bank said i...

The economy preferred 247,000 jobs in July, less than expected and lowest total of losses since last August. Unemployment rate inches down to 9.4% The long battered U.S. job market showed some signs of improvement in July as employers cut far fewer jobs from payrolls and the unemployment rate fell for the first time in more than a year, according t...