TOKYO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will likely raise interest rates again around June or July, and seek to triple its policy rate to at least 1.5% in the next two years, former BOJ board ...

TOKYO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan board members discussed how to use estimates on the economy's neutral interest rate to determine further hikes in borrowing costs, with one saying the BOJ's ...

By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will likely raise interest rates again around June or July, and seek to triple its policy rate to at least 1.5% in the next two ...

TOKYO – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) made a significant step towards shrinking its massive balance sheet in the week of Jan 20, while market watchers were fixated on the biggest interest rate ...

The program’s outstanding loans stood at ¥77 trillion ($496 billion) as of Jan. 20, accounting for around 10.4% of the central bank’s overall balance sheet, according to BOJ data.

BOJ discussed neutral rate estimate at December meeting, minutes show A passerby walks past in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo ...

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday that underlying inflation is still somewhat below 2%. Ueda added that the Japanese central bank would maintain an accommodative policy to ...

While consumer inflation has moved above the BOJ's 2 per cent target recently, the increase was driven mostly by cost-push factors such as rising food and fuel prices that will likely dissipate ...

If the BOJ continues to raise the rate, it will become close to the so-called neutral rate of interest, which neither stimulates nor cools the economy. The BOJ expects to raise the policy rate to ...

the policy chief of a minor opposition party that’s held the key to passing big-ticket items through parliament told Bloomberg that he would be checking to see if the new BOJ board nominee was ...

Speaking at the Lower House budget committee on Friday, Ueda said the BOJ’s policy settings are still accommodative after recent rate hikes and that would remain the case as the central bank ...

The BOJ decided on Friday to offer no new lending from July under its fund-provisioning program to stimulate bank lending. The program’s outstanding loans stood at ¥77 trillion ($496 billion ...