Hawkish BOJ Board Member Calls for Potentially Faster Rate Hikes
In a speech to business leaders, Naoki Tamura said that the central bank should raise rates to 1% or higher in the fiscal ...
Hawkish BOJ Board Member Calls for Potentially Faster Rate Hikes — Update
Tamura's comments suggest that the central bank may tighten monetary policy more quickly than some economists and investors have been expecting. Consensus views are for one or two more 25-basis-point ...
BOJ Must Raise Rates to 1% by Latter Half of Fiscal 2025, Board Member Tamura Says
TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan must raise short-term interest rates to at least 1% by the second half of fiscal 2025 to ...
Japan Wages Grow Most Since 1997, Helping BOJ Rate Path and Yen
Japanese nominal wages rose at the fastest pace in nearly three decades, supporting the Bank of Japan’s latest rate hike ...
BOJ’s Rate Likely to Go Higher Than Consensus, Ex-Official Says
The Bank of Japan is likely to keep raising its benchmark rate to a level exceeding the current market consensus, and there’s ...
Japan's megabanks set for record FY profit after strong Q3
All three of Japan's "megabanks" are on course for record annual income after the first nine months of the financial year as ...
BOJ aims to stabilise overall CPI around 2% target, governor Ueda says
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Tuesday the central bank will aim to achieve 2% inflation, as measured by the ...
Morgan Lewis Grows Tokyo Partner Bench with Senior Duo From Withers
Gerald Fujii and Naoki Ueyama, real estate lawyers each with more than 20 years' experience, have moved over to the U.S. firm ...
Factbox-Who are the BOJ's doves and hawks?
The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an academic favouring an end ...