TOKYO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan board members discussed how to use estimates on the economy's neutral interest rate to determine further hikes in borrowing costs, with one saying the BOJ's ...

TOKYO – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) made a significant step towards shrinking its massive balance sheet in the week of Jan 20, while market watchers were fixated on the biggest interest rate ...

The program’s outstanding loans stood at ¥77 trillion ($496 billion) as of Jan. 20, accounting for around 10.4% of the central bank’s overall balance sheet, according to BOJ data.

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday that underlying inflation is still somewhat below 2%. Ueda added that the Japanese central bank would maintain an accommodative policy to ...

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% ...

While consumer inflation has moved above the BOJ's 2 per cent target recently, the increase was driven mostly by cost-push factors such as rising food and fuel prices that will likely dissipate ...

"Given that real rates continue to be very much in the red, an easy monetary environment’s been maintained,” said Himino, in the first public speech from a board member following the BOJ’s ...

The BOJ decided on Friday to offer no new lending from July under its fund-provisioning program to stimulate bank lending. The program’s outstanding loans stood at ¥77 trillion ($496 billion ...

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 ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the central bank of Japan. Established under the Bank of Japan Act in 1882, it is a juridical entity and neither a government agency nor a private corporation.

The central bank’s government bond purchases nearly doubled from the previous year to 135.989 trillion yen in the year through March 2023, BOJ statistics showed on April 3. During the period ...

The BOJ’s policy decision comes as the yen hovers around the 155 per dollar mark, the weaker end of a 139.58 to 161.96 range it has held this year while under pressure from a strong dollar and a ...