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 ...

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 ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the central bank of Japan. It is a juridical person established based on the Bank of Japan Act (hereafter the Act), and is not a government agency or a private corporation.

Since ending a decade-long, radical stimulus programme in March, the BOJ has signaled its intention to keep raising interest rates from rock-bottom levels. But it was forced to water down the ...

The BOJ was blamed for amplifying a market rout in early August with its surprise interest rate hike in July, and Ueda's comments pledging to keep pushing up rates if sustainable achievement of ...

On the final day of its two-day policy board meeting, the BOJ also decided to halve its monthly purchase of government bonds to about 3 trillion yen ($19 billion) by the first quarter of 2026.

“As long as I feel this way, I would like the BOJ to share our view that it needs to be cautious about raising interest rates.” Given that Japan experienced virtually no growth in wages and ...

A weaker Leading Economic Index (LEI) could reduce investor expectations of a BoJ rate hike, potentially pushing USD/JPY toward 150. FOMC speeches could dictate USD/JPY trends before the US CPI ...

On his first full day as premier, Ishiba emerged from a meeting with BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda and told reporters the economy isn’t ready for a hike right now. Although the remark was in line with ...

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 ...

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