The Bank of Japan concludes its first policy meeting of the year on Friday with the outcome to be announced days after the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Here is a guide on what to ...

The bank, one of Japan's three megabanks, was formed in 2006 by the merger of UFJ Bank and Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi. The employee, identified by Tokyo police as Yukari Iwamura, who also used the name ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25% Friday, noting that inflation is holding at a desirable target level. “The economy is gradually recovering,” BOJ ...

Overall bank lending in Japan was up 3.0 percent on year in January, the Bank of Japan said on Monday - coming in at 635.707 trillion ...

(Bloomberg) -- Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will ... for all major trading partners of the US, including Japan, with the president-elect likely to deliver a barrage of executive orders on day one ...

A tightening in policy would underscore the central bank's resolve to steadily push up interest rates, now at 0.25%, to near 1% - a level analysts see as neither cooling nor overheating Japan's ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan raised interest ... after the policy decision. At its two-day meeting concluding on Friday, the BOJ raised its short-term policy rate from 0.25% to 0.5% - a level ...

THE EXPECTATION: The Bank of Japan looks set to raise interest rates ... to raise the policy rate from the current 0.25% at a two-day meeting ending Friday.

The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an academic favouring an end ...

(Bloomberg) — The Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise its ... overnight call rate to 0.5% at the conclusion of their two-day meeting. The 25 basis point increase would be the largest ...