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Following its third rate increase in January, the Bank of Japan held its key short-term interest rate steady at around 0.5% ...

The world’s lowest interest rate is longer Japan but Switzerland after the Swiss National Bank cut rates by a quarter-point.

Zero or even negative interest rates are therefore not necessary." Nearly 60% of forecasters, 19 of 32, said rates would still be at 0.25% by year-end. Ten said they would fall to 0% and three ...

SHIZUOKA-Bank of Japan (BOJ) deputy governor Shinichi Uchida said the central bank can proceed with interest rate hikes at a pace in line with market expectations, keeping alive views that there ...

Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Kazuo Ueda scrapped the world’s last negative interest rate and its massive stimulus programme a year ago, encouraged by record gains in annual wage deals.

Japan's economy grew 2.2% on an annualized basis in the fourth quarter, a slower pace than initially reported, complicating the central bank's case for a near-term interest rate hike as tepid ...

The Bank of Thailand cut its key interest rate ... “An inflation rate that remains at such a level does not indicate a sign of deflation or a continued negative inflation rate, and it also ...