Ueda also said the BOJ will take "stronger steps" to whittle down monetary support if inflation overshoots its projections, signalling the chance of hiking rates sooner or more aggressively than ...

TOKYO — The Bank of Japan's (BOJ) meeting last week passed with no surprises, but for a careful BOJ watcher its message on the need to remain vigilant on food-driven inflationary pressures had an ...

"Real interest rates are currently extremely low," she said, adding that the BOJ must scrutinise how rising prices could affect corporate behaviour and public perceptions about inflation.

Koeda shared the same view as other senior BOJ officials on the level of real interest rates, saying that it’s “significantly” low, signaling there’s room for further rate increases.

At the meeting, BOJ policymakers voted to raise their short-term interest rate target to 0.5 pct from 0.25 pct. The minutes quoted a policymaker as saying "the cycle between wages and prices ...

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The BOJ lifted its policy rate to 0.5% from 0.25% at that meeting. Some of the nine-member policy board said they thought consumer inflation, excluding volatile fresh food, is likely to be in the ...

The Bank of Japan will continue to raise its benchmark interest rate if its economic projections are realized, Gov. Kazuo Ueda said. "Although there are pockets of weakness, the economy is ...

(This story was corrected on March 26 at 01:25 GMT to say that the USD/JPY pair was up 0.07% on the day at 150.20, not the USD/CAD pair) The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the Japanese central bank ...

The February year-on-year gain in the services producer price index, which measures the price companies charge each other for services, slowed from a revised 3.2 per cent increase in January, BOJ data ...

It accelerated from a 2.2 per cent gain in February. A separate index for Tokyo that strips away both fresh food and fuel costs - closely watched by the BOJ as a measure of domestic demand-driven ...