The debate may be swayed by what BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda heard in Washington last week, where the International Monetary Fund slashed its global growth forecasts and policymakers fret of further ...

In an April 14-21 poll, 84% of economists, or 47 of 56, forecast no change to interest rates at the BOJ's next two policy meetings on April 30-May 1 and June 16-17. Only 52% of economists ...

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is widely expected to signal a pause in policy normalisation this week as US tariffs heighten global uncertainty, without shifting its stance on gradually raising ...

Kenya Koshimizu, co-head of the global markets division at Japan's third-largest lender, made the call ahead of the BOJ conducting a review of its existing bond tapering plan in June. Voices of ...

The BOJ officials see the Trump administration’s tariff campaign and retaliatory actions against the US as likely to weaken Japan’s economy and possibly delaying progress toward the bank’s ...

Ueda said he will take into account the findings from his dialogue with global policymakers in constructing the BOJ's assessment on Japan's economy, and setting monetary policy. "We will continue ...

The assessment, to be included in its quarterly outlook report due on May 1, will underscore the BOJ's desire to keep alive market expectations of further interest rate hikes - even though the ...

Against this backdrop, the BOJ is projected to consider lowering its fiscal 2025 growth forecast for the Japanese economy, which stood at 1.1% in its latest Outlook for Economic Activity and ...

That suggests discussions may have touched upon Japan’s monetary policy, as both wages and prices are key to the timing and pace of further interest rate hikes by the BOJ. Sources have told ...

"Japan's financial system has been maintaining stability on the whole," the BOJ said in a semi-annual report. But since the beginning of April, "uncertainty has heightened regarding the formulation of ...

The BOJ “will have to look at all the data and they will have to communicate very clearly to the markets how they are interpreting these data to explain their decisions,” she said.