NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar extended earlier losses against the yen on Thursday after CNBC television reported that U.S. President Donald Trump told a Wall Street Journal columnist he might take on trade issues with Japan.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices were stable on Friday, as the market balanced a fall in U.S. crude inventories to the lowest levels since 2015, with Sino-American trade tensions and economic weakness from emerging markets.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global equities remained under pressure with stocks in Asia down for the sixth straight day on Thursday amid fragile investor confidence in the wake of turmoil in emerging markets and anxiety about a major escalation in the U.S.-China trade conflict.

BENGALURU (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar, which has had its best yearly performance since 2015 so far in 2018, will hold on to those gains for the rest of the year but beyond that is unlikely to maintain its ascendancy, a Reuters poll showed.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Thursday as emerging market woes weighed on sentiment, while a deadline neared for a potential new round of U.S. tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Asian stocks tracked their global peers lower while the safe-haven dollar was broadly higher on Wednesday as worries over persistent trade conflicts curbed investor appetite for riskier assets.