The Bank of Japan must raise short-term interest rates to at least 1% by the second half of fiscal 2025 to contain inflation ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Japan to stay alert for potential spillover effects from global market ...

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labour shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates again this year and see borrowing costs reach levels deemed neutral to ...

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a long period of stagnation. Source: FactSet, Bank of Japan By The New York ...

The portfolio’s return was -7.75% (net) for the reporting period vs. MSCI Japan Index (Net) that returned -3.60% for the same period. Read more here.

Asian shares Friday were mixed, with Chinese technology stocks rising as most other Asian equities declined as the market ...

(Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Bank of Japan should raise its policy interest rate, currently at 0.5 percent, to at least around 1 percent in the latter half of the next fiscal year ending March ...

After scrapping its negative interest rate policy last year, the Bank of Japan last month proceeded with another interest rate hike. The central bank’s stated reason was that its target of a ...

The Bank of Japan’s most hawkish board member Naoki Tamura has flagged the need for two or more interest rate hikes by early next year to contain upside risks for prices. "The short-term ...