Despite speculation to the contrary in markets, even a decisive election victory for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on February 8 is unlikely to alter the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) rate‑hike trajectory,

This week’s Bank of Japan (BOJ) meeting, initially intended as a quiet step toward preparing markets for a possible April rate increase, has been reshaped by market turbulence and is

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is eying April for its next rate hike, as yen weakness persists and the Bank worries the sustained inflation overshoot will embed higher than wanted

The latest Japanese data has firmed up prospects for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to hike rates to 0.75% at the December 18-19 meeting, the highest level in three decades.

In the wee hours of New York’s Tuesday morning, Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda will take part in a digital conference, doing his utmost not to precommit his

Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda lit up the December policy meeting with his speech in Nagoya Monday, making clear that the Bank will actively consider a rate hike

A December rate hike by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is slipping off the table after Governor Kazuo Ueda’s first one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Tuesday followed by

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) held rates steady at 50 basis points for a sixth consecutive meeting on Thursday, but Governor Kazuo Ueda edged closer to signaling that a rate

As Sanae Takaichi assumes Japan’s leadership and assembles her Cabinet, she is already thinking about revising the government’s monetary accord with the Bank of Japan (BOJ). Her rewrite of the