Another index, discounting the impact of both fuel and fresh food and closely monitored by the BOJ as a better gauge of demand-driven price pressure, rose 3.0% in April from a year earlier, the data ...

Amid strong uncertainty about U.S. tariff policy and trade negotiations, views are split on when the BOJ will move next. The bank's policy board is scheduled to meet on June 16-17. "The necessary ...

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This has investors keenly focused on the BOJ’s hearings with market participants, which began Tuesday with commercial lenders and brokerages, and continues Wednesday with investors. There was no ...

The requests, made in the BOJ’s survey of bond market participants on its taper plans, underscore the challenge the central bank faces in removing remnants of its massive monetary stimulus.

Following the meeting, we see little reason to change our central scenario that the BoJ still wants to raise rates, but will proceed very cautiously while uncertainty is high. It is forward ...

The BOJ will hold two gatherings on Tuesday with representatives from banks and securities firms to hear their views on the current and future pace of the central bank’s pullback from the bond ...

However, recent data showed Japan's GDP shrank 0.7% in Q1 2025, its first decline in a year, which may limit the BOJ’s tightening capacity. Other Asian currencies saw limited movement.

Japan's underlying inflation will stay around the BOJ's 2% target if there is an economic rebound, Uchida told parliament. Sign up here. He noted that recent gains in domestic prices were largely ...

But the bank's policy rate remains relatively low. The reason for this caution is something the BOJ calls 'underlying inflation.' ...