The two-year JGB yield was down 3 bps at 0.805% after earlier touching its lowest in a little more than two week at 0.8%. The BOJ is expected to hold rates steady at 0.5% when its two-day policy ...

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says payments needed to alleviate "stain" of child poverty.

Bank of America analysts expect the BOJ to lift the policy rate in June rather than wait until July, as the Upper House elections are due by that month. If the ruling party loses big at the ...

BOJ officials are leaning towards keeping rates unchanged so ... last week to handing out gift vouchers worth hundreds of US dollars to 15 Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers, drawing criticism ...

The BOJ has long argued that generating a lasting ... can do more for voters before then if he is to improve on the ruling party’s dismal performance in the October 2024 general election.

Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was detained on charges of corruption and aiding a terrorist group in what the main opposition party called ... The widely expected BOJ decision underscored ...

Japan’s economy expanded in the last quarter of 2024 at a slower pace than reported in preliminary data, a result that may give the Bank of Japan added incentive to hold policy settings steady when ...

Japan’s workers saw their base pay rise at the fastest clip in 32 years, a result that sends a positive signal to the Bank of ...

The biggest opposition, Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, has called for modifying the BoJ’s inflation target from the current 2% to one “exceeding zero” – a move that will leave ...