The dovish comments pushed down the yen, heightening uncertainty over whether the BOJ could hike interest rates again this year, as many market players had predicted. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda said ...

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 ...

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% ...

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 ...

which would have been broadly unavoidable,” Dr Jide Lewis, deputy governor of financial institutions supervisory division at the BOJ, said during the quarterly press conference last Wednesday.

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - For academics and policymakers gathered at the U.S. Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole economic conference to debate how central banks can affect market ...

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.

The yen fell after Governor Kazuo Ueda indicated the Bank of Japan isn’t in a hurry to increase interest rates again after hikes in March and July. The currency slid as much as 1.1% to 144.20 ...

The BOJ ended negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term policy rate target to 0.25 per cent in July, in landmark actions away from a decade-long, massive stimulus programme.

It was the first time a BOJ policymaker publicly specified a level the central bank should eventually target in pushing up short-term borrowing costs. Tamura said the likelihood of Japan's economy ...