By Kim Seung-yeon SEOUL, June 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will not likely see huge inflows of yen-funded carry trade in the short term, as a bullish Japanese stock market and uncertainties on yen weakness are expected to dent such investors' demand, the financial regulator said Tuesday. The amount of net stock purchase by foreign investors in the Tokyo market reached 6.1 trillion yen (US$6.07 billion) in the January-April period of this year, compared with 2.3 trillion yen tallied for the previous four months, according to the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS).

By Emily Flitter and Brett Wolf NEW YORK/ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - These are unsettling times for digital currency businesses and the venture capitalists backing them. On Tuesday, authorities in Spain, Costa Rica and New York arrested five people at the digital currency firm Liberty Reserve, including its founder Arthur Budovsky, and seized related bank accounts and Internet domains.

The dollar fell against other major currencies Thursday after a batch of slightly weaker US economic data put a damper on demand for the greenback. The euro bought $1.3043 around 2100 GMT, up from $1.2938 at the same time Wednesday. The dollar dropped against the Japanese currency, to 100.74 yen from 101.06 the prior day, while the euro rose to 131.39 yen from 130.75. The dollar was under pressure after US data was "mildly soft in tone," said Nick Bennenbroek, head of currency strategy at Wells Fargo Securities.

SEOUL, May 30 (Yonhap) -- The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will likely continue its monetary easing in the fourth quarter to boost its economy, an investment bank forecast Thursday, as the country won't meet its inflation target in hopes of fueling growth. Massaki Kanno, a chief Japan economist at JP Morgan Securities Japan Co., said there is a low chance that Tokyo will achieve its 2 percent inflation target range within the next two years, like Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised.