(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 ...

TOKYO, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan policymakers, in deciding a landmark increase in interest rates last month, discussed further rate hikes, a summary of the discussion showed on Thursday, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will gradually sell exchange-traded funds (ETF) in the market, rather than opt for other ideas like transferring them to government entities, when it decides to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will raise its key interest rate by at least 25 basis points again later this year, according to nearly two-thirds of economists in a Reuters poll, up from just over ...

The Bank of Japan kept its benchmark interest rate at 0.5% on Friday, ending a two-day meeting in Tokyo without any change in monetary policy. The vote split was 7 to 2, and literally no one was ...

The Bank of Japan took another step toward policy normalization, announcing it would start to offload its massive exchange-traded fund holdings while keeping the door open to further hikes this year ...

Growing market speculation over a potential Bank of Japan rate hike in October is underestimating the degree of uncertainty wrought by Donald Trump’s tariff campaign, according to a former BOJ chief ...