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Japan inflation ticks up but central bank's target still out of reach
The nation's annual core consumer inflation ticked up slightly in August but remained distant from the Bank of Japan's 2 percent target, suggesting that monetary policy will stay ultraloose for the time being. The proportion of items in the inflation gauge that rose in price ...
BOJ stands pat on stimulus policy, says it will monitor impact of recent tweaks
The Bank of Japan kept its aggressive monetary stimulus policy unchanged after a two-day meeting through Wednesday, opting instead to monitor the effectiveness of recent tweaks amid chronically weak inflation. BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda told a news conference that "the current powerful monetary easing measures ...
Bank of Japan begins two-day meeting as it looks to debate impact of recent policy tweaks
Bank of Japan policymakers were expected to discuss the effectiveness of recent tweaks to monetary stimulus at a two-day meeting that began Tuesday, with fresh policy changes unlikely amid stubbornly low inflation. At its July meeting, the central bank's decision-making Policy Board said it would ...
Bad news around mutual funds does little to boost Japanese people's appetite for investment
On July 27, the Asahi Shimbun reported that the Bank of Japan had overestimated the value of mutual funds being held by individuals by about 30 percent. Every three months the BOJ publishes statistics called shikin junkan tōkei that cover the financial assets of ...
BOJ chief Haruhiko Kuroda rules out hiking interest rates for 'quite a long time'
As its U.S. and European peers tighten monetary policy, the chief of Japan’s central bank clarifies that its July policy phrase “an extended period” means “quite a long time.”
Core inflation stayed flat at 0.8% in July, backed by higher lodging, energy costs
Inflation stayed steady in July amid rising energy costs but remained far below the Bank of Japan's elusive target rate of 2 percent, government data showed Friday. Japan's core consumer price index, which excludes the volatile prices of fresh food but not energy, rose 0.8 ...
Bank of Japan's threat to global bonds fizzles as Japanese insurers stay put
For all the frenzy over the Bank of Japan's first policy tweak in almost two years, little seems to have changed for the nation's insurers. That's because the rise in long-end government bond yields seen after the central bank's July 31 decision has proved to ...
BOJ's tolerance of bigger stock drops shows 'stealth tapering' underway: analysts
Since the central bank isn’t propping up the stock market with ETF purchases on every dip anymore, many traders think the BOJ’s exit strategy is underway.
The Bank of Japan is committed to low rates, for now
Don't read too much into this talk of an "extended period" of stimulus. The board is already divided.
BOJ-watchers pare back expectations of future policy changes
Economists now see a lower chance of any further changes to Bank of Japan monetary policy through the 2019 calendar year, after the central bank last week announced the most significant changes in two years. The 42 respondents to a survey were unanimous in predicting ...
BOJ's higher JGB yield said too low for regional lenders to switch strategies
The yields on Japan's benchmark bond are still too low to lead to any change in investment strategies for regional lenders, even after the central bank permitted a higher trading range, according to managers and traders at the companies. Regional lenders want to see 0.5 ...
Is the BOJ's current monetary stimulus policy the right tool to fix what's ailing Japan's economy.
