well above the BOJ’s 2% target. Ueda said recent economic indicators, including second-quarter growth figures and ...

Jun Saito, senior research fellow at the Japan Center for Economic Research, discusses the outlook for the Bank of Japan's monetary policy and the country's economy. 50 classic slang terms only ...

Japan’s household spending could drive BoJ rate hike expectations. Upward trends may pull USD/JPY toward 141. US Jobs Report ...

The figure is far higher than the equivalent amounts at the Fed and the ECB. What’s especially noteworthy is that the BOJ held about 540 trillion yen, or about 4.8 trillion dollars, worth of ...

The exchange-traded funds (ETFs) owned by the BOJ are collectively worth 4.3 trillion yen more than the figure for the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), which was the largest shareholder ...

Inflation averaged 27.2 per cent per annum over the period 1990-1999, according to BOJ figures. There was a time not so long ago when unemployment averaged 15 per cent for several years.

On Wednesday, July 31, Japan’s retail sales figures influenced USD/JPY demand ... Significantly, these numbers preceded the highly anticipated BoJ monetary policy decision.

The yen pared its losses on Friday as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) sounded optimistic about growth and signalled it will be ...

But the yield has been facing upward pressure as rates rise globally, so the BOJ has been buying unlimited amounts of bonds from the market to keep this figure below an upper limit of 0.25%.

before current BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda began the central bank’s monetary easing program, the bank only owned around 11 percent of Japanese government bonds. But that figure rose sharply ...

Speaking at BOJ’s quarterly monetary policy press conference ... civil society, and political figures from across the north-western region. “Montego Bay has a very large constituency, an ...

Weak inflation figures in July were not ideal, but prices later this year are likely to rise on the back of wage increases in higher costs of imports reflecting yen weakness. The BoJ’s next live ...