{"id":148785,"date":"2025-10-28T02:13:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148785\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:13:48","slug":"u-s-and-japan-finance-chiefs-hold-first-meet-as-nikkei-passes-50000-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148785\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. and Japan finance chiefs hold first meet as Nikkei passes 50,000 mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in his first in-person meeting with new Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Monday night, praised Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s economic policy as Japan\u2019s Nikkei Stock Average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2025\/10\/27\/markets\/nikkei-50000-first\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">topped the 50,000 mark<\/a> the same day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Bessent mentioned that he runs a fund that invests in Japanese stocks and assets. He said that when Abenomics began, Japanese stocks were around 8,000, and since then, they\u2019ve risen significantly \u2014 leading his fund to great success,\u201d Katayama told reporters after the hour-long meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe also noted that when he arrived at this building today, the Nikkei had surpassed \u00a550,000, and commented that this new economic approach \u2014 whether one calls it \u2018Takaichinomics\u2019 or \u2018Sanaenomics\u2019 \u2014 which inherits the Abenomics spirit through responsible proactive fiscal policy, seems to be working very well and sending a positive signal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in his first in-person meeting with new Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama on Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[79,179,18,10247,19,17,50512,87509,2712,3070,10604],"class_list":{"0":"post-148785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-finance-ministry","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sanae-takaichi","15":"tag-satsuki-katayama","16":"tag-scott-bessent","17":"tag-u-s","18":"tag-u-s-japan-relations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115449381795357060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}