Koeda shared the same view as other senior BOJ officials on the level of real interest rates, saying that it’s “significantly” low, signaling there’s room for further rate increases.

Ueda also said the BOJ will take "stronger steps" to whittle down monetary support if inflation overshoots its projections, signalling the chance of hiking rates sooner or more aggressively than ...

"Real interest rates are currently extremely low," she said, adding that the BOJ must scrutinise how rising prices could affect corporate behaviour and public perceptions about inflation.

On the final day of its two-day policy board meeting, the BOJ also decided to halve its monthly purchase of government bonds to about 3 trillion yen ($19 billion) by the first quarter of 2026.

BOJ officials are leaning toward keeping rates unchanged this month as they pay close attention to the impact of their hike in January and growing uncertainties in the global economy, people ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan's meeting last week passed with no surprises, but for a careful BOJ watcher its message on the need to remain vigilant on food-driven inflationary pressures had ...

Under a quantitative tightening (QT) programme laid out in July, the BOJ has been slowing bond purchases by around 400 billion yen ($2.65 billion) per quarter to halve monthly purchases to 3 ...

Tonight, the FX market will start to get really interesting, with the BOJ rate decision around 11 to 12 PM EDT. More important than the decision will be the read-through for the future path for ...

which would make it easier to raise prices for other goods and services and lead to the possibility for more widespread inflation,” BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda told a parliamentary committee.

The Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has revised its minimum capital requirements applicable to deposit-taking institutions (DTIs) or banks in how they classify collateral of certain assets. When a bank ...