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 ...

The BOJ maintained its settings for the unsecured overnight call rate at around 0.25%, according to its statement, as expected by all 53 economists surveyed by Bloomberg. The bank raised its ...

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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 ...

BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda will hold a news conference at 3:30 p.m. (0630 GMT) to explain the decision. The BOJ ended negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term policy rate to 0.25 ...

The dollar rose 0.74% to 143.65 yen , close to an overnight high of 143.95 on Governor Kazuo Ueda's remarks after the BOJ kept unchanged ... Friday's solid retail sales figures, having hit its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The BOJ kept the uncollateralized overnight call rate at 0.25%. The decision to leave the rate unchanged was widely expected. A poll of 27 BOJ watchers conducted by Nikkei affiliate QUICK from Sept.

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 ...

The revised figure for the world's fourth-biggest economy ... While the revised second quarter GDP data is likely to have little sway on BOJ's decision making now, economists said recent data ...

THE world economy’s tectonic plates will shift this week when a US easing cycle begins, just as officials from Europe to Asia ...