The BOJ ended negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term rate target to 0.25% in July on the view Japan was on track to durably meet the bank's 2% inflation target. Governor Ueda ...

BOJ’s Deputy Chief Signals Chance of Rate Hike Next Week Board will be discussing need of rate hike, Himino says Himino gives last scheduled board member speech before meeting ...

BOJ Is Said to Weigh Raising Inflation Forecast on Rice, Yen BOJ likely to discuss raising core-core view for FY24, FY25 Bank will still be assessing data carefully before decision ...

with most BOJ watchers seeing it coming in either January or March. Himino also said there are various risks both for the upside and downside, and echoed Gov. Kazuo Ueda by saying momentum for ...

BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda has said he considers pay hike proposals toward this year's "shunto" spring wage talks as a "big factor" for monetary policy decisions Many branch managers reported that ...

Until the events of recent days, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda had earned plaudits for unwinding ... have been expected to see this coming. The BOJ’s move coming just before the markets ...

“The yen may go past 160” if the BoJ holds rates in January, Sakurai said. “But that makes the decision to move in March easier.” Governor Kazuo Ueda has stressed the need to closely watch ...

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"We can expect solid wage gains this year." While such optimism heightens the chance of a rate hike at the BOJ's January meeting, Governor Kazuo Ueda has flagged uncertainty over U.S. President ...

The BOJ ended negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term rate target to 0.25 per cent in July on the view Japan was on track to durably meet the bank’s 2 per cent inflation target.

Since BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda gave dovish comments at the post-December meeting press conference, market participants’ views have tilted toward expecting the next policy change to come later.