The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate unchanged Friday ... negative interest rate policy last month and abolished its yield curve control policy. The currency broke through the 156 mark against ...

Governor Kuroda Haruhiko faced questions in parliament on November 2 about whether the central bank was correct ... to know about "yield curve control" (YCC), a policy Japan has been pursuing ...

Underlying inflation in Japan is still slightly below the central bank’s target of 2%, Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda said, ...

On the evening of December 19, the Bank of Japan (BOJ ... which is mainly due to the demographics of Japan and its debt-to-GDP statistics. This yield-cap increase, which was unexpected by economists, ...

Japan's central bank has raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25%, noting that inflation is holding at a ...

The aim of YCC is to control the whole curve by buying 10-year bonds. Ideally for the bank, a lower 10-year yield would pull down the whole curve while keeping it smooth. However, Japan's yield ...

It’s also relied on yield-curve control for years ... has a 2% target on inflation and has watched recent price gains come in above forecasts. But Japan’s central bank is poised to leave ...

Core inflation in Japan's capital hit 2.5%, marking the fastest annual pace in nearly a year, well exceeding the central bank ...

The Bank of Japan shocked markets on Tuesday with ... investors who had expected the BOJ to make no changes to its yield curve control (YCC) until Governor Haruhiko Kuroda steps down in April.

The Bank of Japan is expected to end eight ... The central bank introduced negative rates and yield curve control (YCC) in 2016 as tepid inflation forced it to tweak its stimulus program to ...

Japan's central bank has increased the cost of borrowing to its highest level in 17 years after consumer price rises ...

Japan's central bank raised interest rates to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis and revised up its inflation forecasts.