Wall Street pointed lower Friday as a rally driven by the Federal Reserve’s big cut to interest rates faded and markets' ...

They will closely watch how the bank communicates its likely policy trajectory after the BOJ’s messaging attracted criticism in the aftermath of its rate hike and hawkish policy signals in July.

"Having just raised rates in July, the BOJ will likely prefer to scrutinise market developments for the time being," said former BOJ official Nobuyasu Atago. "It's natural to think the next rate ...

As widely expected, the BOJ kept short-term interest rates steady at 0.25% at a two-day meeting that ended on Friday. "Private consumption has been on a moderate increasing trend despite the ...

That makes signaling on Friday from BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda the near-term key in determining the outlook on the narrowing rate gap between the two economies, after his comments at the last policy ...

0128 GMT — Yen strengthens against other G-10 and Asian currencies in the morning session amid prospects of further BOJ rate increases. Japan’s August CPI data released earlier suggest the near-term ...

Japan's neutral rate likely to be at least 1%, Tamura says Japan making further progress in durably hitting price goal Tamura sees upside inflationary risk rising BOJ can raise rates slowly ...

Markets are closely watching for hints on the pace of future rate hikes from BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda. “For the BOJ, given current economic conditions and recent central bank rhetoric, further policy ...

Later Friday the BoJ was forecast to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged, with all 53 economists polled by Bloomberg News predicting that borrowing costs will be left at 0.25 percent.

It is up 3.4% for the week. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is widely expected to keep its short-term rate steady at 0.25%, although focus will be on any hints from Governor Kazuo Ueda on the timing and ...

Japanese inflation rose slightly in August, with prices up 2.8 percent year-on-year, official data showed Friday, hours ...