“Ducks are lining up for a BOJ hike next week and the mood music from officials is becoming more assertive,” said Rodrigo Catril, a currency strategist at National Australia Bank in Sydney.

“Ducks are lining up for a BOJ hike next week and the mood music from officials is becoming more assertive,” said Rodrigo Catril, a currency strategist at National Australia Bank in Sydney. “Of course ...

While the tight labour market is not a new trend, the BOJ's more vocal concerns about the resulting wage and inflationary pressures mean it will be more inclined to look past economic weakness as ...

But that process at times could be difficult," Ueda said. Ueda's remarks followed the BOJ's decision last month to raise short-term interest rates to 0.5%, a level unseen in Japan for 17 years ...

Based on his own assessment, Hayakawa said he sees the BOJ’s terminal rate in this cycle somewhere around 1.5%. That’s higher than most analysts’ view, although it’s in line with a ...

As such, we must support economic activity with loose monetary policy," Kazuhiro Masaki, director-general of the BOJ's monetary affairs department, told parliament. "Having said that, we will ...

Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said Friday the central bank must maintain an accommodative monetary policy to support economic growth and ensure the underlying inflation gradually moves ...

Japan has “completely” ended deflation and it’s absolutely natural for the central bank to proceed with rate hikes to normalize policy, according to former BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda ...

BANK of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles has hinted that the central bank is contemplating legal recourse to get commercial banks to move interest rates in line with similar movements by BOJ.

The remarks, which echo those made by BOJ Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino on Tuesday, pushed up the yen as markets continued to price in the chance of a rate hike at the bank's next policy meeting on ...