That makes signaling on Friday from BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda the near-term key in determining the outlook on the narrowing rate gap between the two economies, after his comments at the last policy ...

Japan's neutral rate likely to be at least 1%, Tamura says Japan making further progress in durably hitting price goal Tamura sees upside inflationary risk rising BOJ can raise rates slowly ...

TOKYO, Sept 13 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will not raise interest rates at a policy meeting next week, economists unanimously said in a Reuters poll published on Friday, but a majority of ...

It was the first time a BOJ policymaker publicly specified a level the central bank should eventually target in pushing up short-term borrowing costs. Tamura said the likelihood of Japan's economy ...

OKAYAMA (Japan): The Bank of Japan (BoJ) must raise interest rates to at least 1% by late next year, hawkish policymaker Naoki Tamura says, reinforcing the bank’s resolve to persist with steady ...

“The market moves are reflection of lingering nervousness over the BOJ’s policy outlook after the July rate hike, but I don’t expect the yen to keep appreciating as a result of Nakagawa’s ...

The BOJ ended negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term policy rate target to 0.25 per cent in July, in landmark actions away from a decade-long, massive stimulus programme.

BOJ May Hike Rates by Year-End, Says Ex-FSA Senior Official Tomoko Amaya says banks would benefit from higher rates Says market sufficiently stabilized to keep rate move on table ...

The corporate goods price index (CGPI), which measures the price companies charge each other for their goods and services, rose 2.5 per cent in August from a year earlier, Bank of Japan (BOJ ...

Since then, Governor Kazuo Ueda has backed up his deputy’s stance, while also making the point that the BOJ will continue to raise rates if data show the economy and prices in Japan are followin ...

It was the first time a BOJ policymaker publicly specified a level the central bank should eventually target in pushing up short-term borrowing costs.