(Bloomberg) — Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will likely face a tougher political environment in the second half of his five-year term starting Thursday after the ruling party leadership victory of ...

TOKYO, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Some Bank of Japan board members, at a policy meeting in July, called for resuming interest rate hikes in the future, even as the board decided unanimously to keep borrowing ...

The Bank of Japan kept its benchmark interest rate at 0.5% on Friday, ending a two-day meeting in Tokyo without any change in monetary policy. The vote split was 7 to 2, and literally no one was ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will gradually sell exchange-traded funds (ETF) in the market, rather than opt for other ideas like transferring them to government entities, when it decides to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan should not rush into raising interest rates given various economic risks, its new board member Kazuyuki Masu said on Tuesday, reinforcing market views that U.S.

Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. It has stayed put despite headline and core ...

The USD/JPY exchange rate pulled back slightly on Thursday as the market reacted the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan (BoJ) interest rate decisions. It was trading at 148.75, a few points below this ...

The Bank of Japan owns around ¥70 trillion ($475 billion) of the country’s exchange-traded funds, a legacy of its decades-long campaign to help defeat deflation by pouring money into the equity market ...

TOKYO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will likely raise interest rates again around June or July, and seek to triple its policy rate to at least 1.5% in the next two years, former BOJ board ...

The Bank of Japan will likely leave its benchmark interest rate untouched this week after Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s recent resignation announcement added to the list of uncertainties to consider ...