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Bank of Japan to release monthly report on economic and financial developments for October.
In February 1999, the
Bank of Japan undertook its zero-interest-rate policy to combat recession and deflation.
Inflation targeting works because the
Bank of Japan promise will change expectations.
Until recently, the ministry ran the
Bank of Japan too (and many believe it still will, though more indirectly, under a revised law).
Recent yen-selling spree was triggered by comments by Japan's incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pressuring the central bank to aggressively ease its monetary policies, such as his recent remark that his government will consider revising the
Bank of Japan law.
The central
bank of Japan has announced a cut in its growth forecast.
Summary: Not surprisingly, the
Bank of Japan left its policy rate at 0.10% by unanimous vote.The statement accompanying the release made it a clear point that Eoe1/4EoJapanEoe1/4aos...
Rather, it is an inadvertent and inevitable result of a series of snowballing factors that can be traced back to the
Bank of Japan's post-bubble monetary easing.
In response to the favorable price pattern, the
Bank of Japan announced, on March 9, 2006, that it was ending its quantitative easing policy.
In the
Bank of Japan's quarterly Tankan survey, a majority of the country's manufacturing titans declared their most positive view of the business environment since 1997, giving the market a glimmer of hope that the likes of Toyota, Matsushita and Hitachi may finally be hardening their defenses against a persistently strong yen.
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Bank of Japan Policy Board to begin a two-day meeting.
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