The need for further interest rate hikes was discussed at the most recent Bank of Japan monetary policy meeting, with a board ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday the central bank must maintain loose monetary policy to ensure underlying ...

In a well-trailed move, the Bank of Japan on Friday raised the policy rate by 0.25 percentage points, taking it to 0.5 per ...

The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an academic favouring an end ...

Established under the Bank of Japan Act in 1882, it is a juridical entity and neither a government agency nor a private corporation. The BoJ sets monetary policy in the country. Its mandate is to ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) board discussed the role of the economys neutral interest rate in shaping monetary policy during ...

The Bank of Japan on Friday raised its policy interest rate to 0.5 percent from 0.25 percent, its highest level in about 17 ...

Last month, the BOJ raised the policy rate to 0.5% from 0.25%, the highest level since October 2008. Gov. Kazuo Ueda said at a post-meeting news conference that the bank would reflect on the impact of ...

The Bank of Japan has raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point, the highest in 17 years, signalling efforts to ...

The Bank of Japan increased the rate for the first ... Japan’s longtime ultra-lax monetary policy was meant to wrest the economy out of deflationary tendencies and boost growth.

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