By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan must immediately end its negative interest rate policy as it has allowed companies to delay efforts to…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan has yet to achieve price gains driven by higher wages with the recent rise in inflation driven by cost-push factors, Bank of Japan board member Asahi…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Monday the central bank cannot say yet with conviction that inflation will sustainably and stably achieve its 2% inflation…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core consumer inflation likely accelerated again in October, staying above the central bank’s 2% price target for a 19th straight month, a Reuters poll found on…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is under pressure to defend a new cap for long-term interest rates set just six weeks ago, as Governor Kazuo…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan’s Friday decision to make its yield curve control (YCC) more flexible was not deemed a shift in its monetary easing stance,…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has tweaked its bond yield control policy and will allow interest rates to rise more freely, action that market…
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will maintain accommodative monetary conditions for companies, Governor Kazuo Ueda was quoted as saying at a key government meeting on Wednesday. While…
By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto (Reuters) -Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Tuesday there was still some distance to sustainably and stably achieving the central bank’s…
By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino said the country’s banking sector remains sound and has sufficient buffers to weather any…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the country’s corporate price-setting behaviour was showing changes that could work to push up inflation more than expected,…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – As inflation has run past the Bank of Japan’s 2% target, governor Kazuo Ueda has had no shortage of advice from fellow academics on…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday a U.S. debt default could trigger market turmoil, and will likely have a huge impact on the global…
By Leika Kihara NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – Many central bank governors from the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations appeared to feel the impact of past interest rate hikes has…
By Leika Kihara NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – Calm has returned to the global financial system after the recent failure of several U.S. banks, but Group of Seven (G7) finance leaders…
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Japanese inflation figures for March and the first insights into economic activity around…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s business-to-business services inflation picked up in February on a tourism rebound and rising labour costs, data showed, offering the central bank hope that steady…
(Reuters) – Central banks must remain on guard against the potential dangers of secular stagnation and low inflation as price rises driven by cost-push factors do not last long, Bank…
(Reuters) – Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Saturday stressed anew the central bank’s resolve to maintain ultra-loose monetary policy, even as inflation continued to exceed its 2%…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday wage growth will likely accelerate as companies increase pay to compensate households for the higher cost of living,…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan’s incoming governor Kazuo Ueda will lead a powerful trio that includes a technocrat who designed yield curve control, and a…
By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan’s expected next governor Kazuo Ueda likely won’t rush to overhaul ultra-loose policy and will instead let economic…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan (BOJ) Deputy Governor Masayoshi Amamiya, who is seen as a top contender to become next central bank chief, said on Friday…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Monday defended his decade-long stimulus programme, saying there was “no better way” to aim at sustainably achieving its 2% inflation…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Friday he expected wages to rise “quite significantly”, boosted by improvements in the economy and a tightening job…