TOKYO, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan board members debated the feasibility of raising interest rates in the near term with some suggesting the time for such a move may be approaching, a summary of ...

The Bank of Japan’s monetary policy tightening last week has triggered a wave of criticism after it appears to have helped set off a historic plunge in Japanese stocks and contributed to global market ...

The Bank of Japan will discuss ways toscale back a controversial programme that buys massive amounts of exchange traded funds without stoking market fears of a full-fledged retreat from ultra-loose ...

(Corrects rate level in 3rd bullet point to 0.75%, not 0.5%) By Leika Kihara and Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates as soon as December as ...

Market participants should be braced for the possibility of a tumultuous week in the capital markets. The dollar is underpinned by the outperformance of the US economy, which takes off pressure on the ...

The Bank of Japan will likely leave its benchmark interest rate untouched this week after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s recent resignation announcement added to the list of uncertainties to consider ...

Economists say the Bank of Japan (BOJ) won’t raise interest rates anytime soon because Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wants to keep the money policy easy. A survey of 50 economists showed that most of ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will continue raising interest rates if economic and price developments move in line with its forecasts, BOJ Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said, reaffirming the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's new finance minister, Satsuki Katayama, said on Monday her meeting with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent did not directly touch upon the Bank of Japan's monetary policy. ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to start playing up the flexible nature of the time frame for its 2 per cent inflation target, as doubts spread that the central bank will achieve that level by a widely ...