Markets are paying close attention to the BOJ's neutral rate estimate as it would show how far the bank could eventually push up borrowing costs. Its staff has produced estimates showing Japan's ...

Under Kuroda, the BOJ deployed a massive asset-buying programme dubbed "quantitative and qualitative easing" (QQE) in April 2013 to pull Japan out of deflation and fire up inflation to its 2% ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Some Bank of Japan policymakers began to lose faith in the power of former Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's "bazooka" stimulus less than two years after its introduction, with a ...

BOJ discussed neutral rate estimate at December meeting, minutes show A passerby walks past in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo ...

BOJ executives probably want to raise short-term rates at least to 1.5% by the end of fiscal 2026, so they have scope to reduce borrowing costs when the economy faces another downturn, Sakurai said.

with one saying the BOJ's policy rate was still far from that level, minutes of their December meeting showed. Another member questioned whether it was appropriate to use estimates based on data ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to have two women on its decision-making board for the first time, marking a modest step toward improving gender diversity at the central bank as it struggles to catch ...

BANK of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor Richard Byles has hinted that the central bank is contemplating legal recourse to get commercial banks to move interest rates in line with similar movements by BOJ.

BANK of Jamaica (BOJ) says it has received a recommendation from at least one deposit-taking institution (DTI) that, if enacted, will result in automated banking machines (ABMs) being deployed to ...