The US dollar traded at the lower 83 yen zone early Monday in Tokyo.
Kuwaiti caretaker oil minister said Sunday the global oil market has sufficient supplies, as unrest in the Midest and North African region has boosted oil prices by around 20 percent.
Group of 20 finance chiefs agreed on details of a new surveillance system aimed at highlighting and rectifying flaws in the world economy before they imperil growth. IMF sees strong growth in Asia
Economic growth in Asia will keep robust this year and the next, but there are signs of overheating, said a senior official of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world's 20 dominant economies have completed the first step to address global economic imbalances, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde said here on Friday.
China said Saturday that it hoped to see equal opening-up within the World Trade Organization.
President Barack Obama said there are no quick fixes to bring down rising gasoline prices and urged caution about being too quick to tap US emergency oil reserves amid uncertainty in the Middle East.
China, the biggest buyer of US Treasury securities, trimmed its holdings for a fourth straight month in February and Japan boosted its holdings one month before a devastating earthquake hit the country.
Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis ignited by a powerful earthquake last month is leading the country toward a future of uncertainty, an American expert on Japan said here Friday.
Greece's prime minister has vowed to continue with deeper structural reforms to overhaul the debt-ridden country's economy, adding that austerity measures taken so far are just the begining.
Toyota Motor Corp said Friday it will maintain output at half capacity in Japan from May 10 to June 3 amid a supply crunch following the March tsunami disaster.
India's monthly inflation rose to 8.98 percent in March as manufacturing and fuel costs increased, the government said Friday, adding to worries about rising prices across emerging Asia.