The Bank of Japan will probably not raise interest rates this week because confidence at small companies has deteriorated and policymakers are still assessing the effect of the U.S. housing slump on economic growth.
BOJ Gov. Toshihiko Fukui and his colleagues will leave the benchmark overnight lending rate at 0.5 percent on Oct. 11, according to all 39 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.
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