That makes signaling on Friday from BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda the near-term key in determining the outlook on the narrowing rate gap between the two economies, after his comments at the last policy ...

TOKYO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will not raise interest rates at a policy meeting next week, economists unanimously said in a Reuters poll published on Friday, but a majority of ...

Japan's neutral rate likely to be at least 1%, Tamura says Japan making further progress in durably hitting price goal Tamura sees upside inflationary risk rising BOJ can raise rates slowly ...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyoming (Reuters) - For academics and policymakers gathered at the U.S. Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole economic conference to debate how central banks can affect market ...

It was the first time a BOJ policymaker publicly specified a level the central bank should eventually target in pushing up short-term borrowing costs. Tamura said the likelihood of Japan's economy ...

Ueda said the market volatility seen in early August was due to rising fears of a U.S. recession, stoked by the country's weak economic data, while the BOJ's interest rate hike in July led to a ...

“The market moves are reflection of lingering nervousness over the BOJ’s policy outlook after the July rate hike, but I don’t expect the yen to keep appreciating as a result of Nakagawa’s ...

In March the BOJ managed at last to end eight years of negative interest rates. The next month it began dropping hints it would kick off steady interest rate hikes if inflation remained on track ...

OKAYAMA (Japan): The Bank of Japan (BoJ) must raise interest rates to at least 1% by late next year, hawkish policymaker Naoki Tamura says, reinforcing the bank’s resolve to persist with steady ...

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda told the Japanese parliament on Friday, “the BoJ raised rates in July as economy and inflation moved mostly in line with forecast.“ No change in stance ...

The BOJ ended negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term policy rate target to 0.25 per cent in July, in landmark actions away from a decade-long, massive stimulus programme.

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda reaffirmed that he is open to more interest-rate increases, clearing up doubts about the central bank’s intention to continue on its path of policy normalization ...