Some Bank of Japan policymakers saw consumer inflation briefly accelerating toward their 2% target as price pressures build up on changing corporate price-setting behavior, a summary of opinions at the bank’s January meeting showed Wednesday.
Many board members, however, stressed the need to maintain ultraloose monetary policy to support a fragile economy facing fresh risks from a spike in omicron coronavirus cases, the summary showed.
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