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Japan's changing views on price hikes open door for BOJ policy tweak
Japanese consumers may finally be shedding their decades-old frugal mindset, spending more on items that retailers were once too afraid to raise prices on and paving the way for the central bank to finally unwind its massive monetary stimulus. → Read More
BOJ likely to forgo YCC tweak in July despite broadening inflation
The Bank of Japan may revise up this year's inflation forecast but will likely hold off on tweaking its yield curve control (YCC) policy in July to await more evidence that wages will keep rising, its former top economist Seisaku Kameda told Reuters. → Read More
Asia's factory output slumps as weak China demand weighs
Asia's factory activity slumped in June, business surveys showed on Monday, as sluggish demand in China and advanced nations clouded the outlook for the region's exporters. → Read More
Improving Japan business mood signals steady economic recovery
Japanese business sentiment improved in the second quarter as raw material costs peaked and removal of pandemic curbs lifted consumption, a central bank survey showed, a sign the economy was on course for a steady recovery. → Read More
Inflation in Tokyo stays above BOJ's target for 13th straight month
Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose 3.2% in June from a year earlier, exceeding the central bank's 2% target for the 13th straight month in a sign of broadening inflationary pressure, government data showed on Friday. → Read More
Bank of Japan deputy governor Himino sees early signs of demand-driven inflation
Bank of Japan (BOJ) Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino said recent price rises were stronger than previously projected and inflation expectations were moving up, a sign the economy is getting closer to achieving the bank's 2% inflation target. → Read More
Explainer: What would Japanese intervention to boost the weak yen look like?
Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat a continued yen fall driven by market expectations that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates ultra-low, even as other central banks tighten monetary policy to curb inflation. → Read More
BOJ may tweak yield control policy in Oct
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is likely to move steadily towards phasing out its massive stimulus and may tweak yield curve control as early as October, said former central bank policymaker Makoto Sakurai. → Read More
Factbox: Japan's toolkit to combat sharp yen declines
Japanese authorities are facing renewed pressure to combat the yen's fresh declines driven by market expectations that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates ultra-low, even as other central banks tighten monetary policy to curb inflation. → Read More
Bank of Japan member called for early revision of YCC at June meeting
The Bank of Japan should discuss revising its yield curve control (YCC) policy at an early stage, a board member was quoted as saying at a June policy meeting, a summary of opinions at the rate review released on Monday. → Read More
Japan's inflation stays above BOJ target, key gauge hits 42-year high
Japan's core consumer inflation exceeded forecasts in May and an index excluding fuel costs rose at the fastest annual pace in 42 years, highlighting broadening price pressure that will keep the central bank under pressure to phase out its massive stimulus. → Read More
BOJ policymaker calls for keeping low rates, focus on wages
Bank of Japan (BOJ) board member Asahi Noguchi said on Thursday the central bank must maintain ultra-loose monetary policy to ensure wages, seen as key to driving inflation to its 2% target, continue to increase as a trend. → Read More
BOJ debated risk of being too late in raising rates at April meeting
Bank of Japan (BOJ) policymakers agreed to keep ultra-low interest rates at Governor Kazuo Ueda's debut meeting but some saw the need to avoid being too late in raising interest rates, minutes of the April rate review showed on Wednesday. → Read More
BOJ to weigh pros and cons of its tool-kit in review -governor
The Bank of Japan will scrutinise the effects and side-effects of its unconventional monetary policy tools deployed during a 25-year battle with deflation in a scheduled long-term review, Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday. → Read More
BOJ to keep ultra-low rates, focus on Ueda's inflation views
The Bank of Japan is widely expected to maintain ultra-easy monetary policy on Friday despite stronger-than-expected inflation, as it focuses on supporting a fragile economic recovery amid a sharp slowdown in global growth. → Read More
Central banks shelve guidance, in fits and starts, as inflation reigns
Central bankers, who once considered obscurity central to their craft, are trying to wean the world from the predictability they've nurtured over 15 years of concrete guidance about their intentions and return to a time when policy starts, stops and occasional surprises were more the norm. → Read More
Japan's wholesale inflation eases, goods close to consumers continue to rise
Japan's wholesale inflation slowed for a fifth consecutive month in May because of sliding fuel and commodity prices, data showed on Monday, a sign cost-push pressure that has driven up consumer inflation may be subsiding. → Read More
BOJ set to keep ultra-low rates, may signal inflation overshoot
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is expected to maintain ultra-loose monetary policy next week and its forecast for a moderate economic recovery, as robust corporate and household spending cushion the blow from slowing overseas demand, sources said. → Read More
BOJ's Ueda flags shift in corporate pricing, upward inflation bias
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday the country's corporate price-setting behaviour was showing changes that could work to push up inflation more than expected. → Read More
Trauma of Japan's deflation battle keeps BOJ wary of policy shift
Japan's bitter memories of its decades-long battle with deflation hang heavily over the central bank's deliberations to take its first modest step away from ultra-loose monetary policy, even as inflation and wages creep up. → Read More