Japan Eyes Foreign Banks to Back $33 Billion U.S. Natural Gas Investment

The Japanese government may approach foreign banks to help finance pledged investments in U.S. natural gas production that are part of Tokyo’s trade deal with the Trump administration, agreed last year. “If financing from foreign banks materialises, it should further facilitate the procurement of foreign-currency funding needed to implement the investment initiative,” the Japanese finance ministry said in an X post, as quoted by Reuters. The publication reported earlier this month that JP Morgan and other U.S. lenders were close…