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Attention is also on Tokyo after Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said Wednesday the government was keeping an eye on currency markets as the yen continued to weaken.

TOKYO—The first face-to-face meeting between Japan’s prime minister and the head of its central bank has cooled expectations that an interest-rate hike is coming soon, sending the yen to a nine-month low.

Inserting any creature that could be thought of as cuddly into a universe whose antagonists have a yen for ripping the skulls and spines from their victims is, at best, a test of customer loyalty.

They appear to be “leaving open the possibility of a rate hike in December if the momentum for such a move increases, possibly due to yen depreciation,” the economist says.

The Japanese electronics and entertainment company said Tuesday that net profit rose 6.7% from a year earlier to 311.4 billion yen, equivalent to $2.02 billion, for the three months ended September.