The nine-member board also discussed how to improve the way the BOJ communicates its policy intention to markets, with one flagging the idea of disclosing each member's forecast on the future ...

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's election campaign denied false claims that banknotes seen in his first birthday photo ...

The BOJ also released its quarterly consumer inflation report. It maintains its forecast of 2.5 percent for fiscal 2024, which started in April. But it downgraded its outlook for the next fiscal ...

Japan's Kingmaker Opposition Warns Against Early BOJ Rate Hike By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan should avoid overhauling its ultra-loose monetary policy now, the head of a ...

Following are excerpts from BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda's comments at his post-meeting news conference, which was conducted in Japanese, as translated by Reuters: NEXT RATE HIKE "As for the timing of ...

Some Bank of Japan board members were skeptical of the potential merits of releasing a rate path projection similar to the Federal Reserve’s dot plot when authorities discussed the idea during ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) returned to its very succinct policy statement at its scheduled Monetary Policy Meeting (MPM) on Thu (31 Oct) as the BOJ took a unanimous decision to keep its monetary ...

Ueda Indicates BOJ Still on Track for More Rate Hikes After Hold Yen climbs as much as 1% after Ueda comments on policy outlook Still sees upside risks to its inflation view for fiscal 2025 ...

"The BOJ needs to pay due attention to the future course of overseas economies, particularly the US economy, and developments in financial markets," the BOJ said in a quarterly outlook report.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda, right, and the other members of the central bank's Policy Board attend the second day of its two-day meeting at the BOJ's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 31 ...