Japan's annual wholesale inflation hit 4.0% in February, data showed on Wednesday, underscoring pressure from rising raw ...

Julian Robinson, the opposition spokesman on finance, has proposed a three-pronged strategy to tackle the “high” interest ...

On Thursday, the central bank torch will be passed to the SNB and the BoE. Getting the ball rolling with the SNB, this will ...

The remarks underscore the BOJ's resolve to keep raising short-term interest rates, and to allow markets to freely price in the chance of further hikes in borrowing costs. Sign up here.

"June is the favored option in my base case,” Kazuo Momma, a former executive director in charge of monetary policy at the BOJ, said in an interview Monday. "It may get pushed back to September ...

[TOKYO] Japan’s Economy Minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Tuesday the government will work closely with the Bank of Japan (BOJ) in reaching its 2 per cent inflation target as rising living costs hurt ...

Recession fears and BoJ rate hike expectations sent USD/JPY tumbling 1.71% last week, falling to the lowest level since the 2024 Yen carry trade unwind. The pair briefly climbed to a high of 151. ...

BOJ Policy Board members agreed on the continuation at their monetary policy meeting on June 16 although inflation has been exceeding the central bank’s 2 percent target for some time.

The BOJ will deliver its next policy decision on March 19. “Consumer spending is likely to stay weak into this quarter as households face inflation,” said Taro Saito, the head of economic ...

Workers in Japan have seen their base pay rise at the fastest clip in 32 years, a result that sends a positive signal to the Bank of Japan as it weighs the prospects for demand-driven economic ...