The BOJ ended its yield curve control and began tapering its huge bond buying last year. It also raised short-term rates to 0.5% in January on the view Japan was making progress towards durably ...

The BOJ ended a decade-long, massive stimulus last year and raised short-term rates to 0.5% in January on the view Japan was on the cusp of sustainably achieving its 2% inflation target.

At its two-day meeting ending June 17, the BOJ is widely expected to leave its short-term policy rate unchanged at 0.5%. Markets are focusing on the board's review of an existing bond-tapering ...

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A chart attached to recent BOJ speech texts also includes services price inflation as a key measurement of underlying inflation which, at 1.4% in May, also remains below 2%.

BOJ signals pause in rate hikes for clarity on US tariff impact; Cuts to growth forecasts, warning on uncertainty push down yen; With price, wage growth on rise, standing pat not without cost ...

Under a plan laid out last July, the BOJ has been slowing its monthly bond purchases by around 400 billion yen ($2.76 billion) steps each quarter. So in the current quarter, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will forego another interest rate hike this year due to uncertainty over U.S. tariff policy, according to a slight majority of economists in a Reuters poll who ...

“The BOJ faces a tough, narrow path ahead,” says Frederic Neumann, chief Asia economist at HSBC.

Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area eased in June but remained firmly above the Bank of Japan’s 2% target, leaving the central bank balancing on a policy tightrope.