The Bank of Japan said Wednesday it will maintain its zero interest rate policy but gave a somber assessment that a pickup in economic activity has “paused.”
The economy is being influenced by “the effects of a slowdown in overseas economies and of the appreciation of the yen,” the central bank said in a statement after a two-day meeting of its Policy Board.
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