The Bank of Japan (BOJ) this week removed its last hurdle to ending negative interest rates and opened a window to a move to a positive policy setting between January

In the countdown to its October policy meeting, the potential for another adjustment in Yield Curve Control (YCC) is live as the Bank of Japan lays a path to an

The Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) October policy meeting is shaping up to be a watershed event; a forecast round wherein improved inflation projections for 2024 and 2025 should open up

Though Japanese economic officials are scrambling to downplay comments from Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda in an interview with Yomiuri last week that appeared to open the door to a potential

Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda will struggle to keep a low profile at the annual Jackson Hole central bankers confab hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas

Conditions are falling into place for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to tweak Yield Curve Control (YCC) again as the central bank takes its first tangible steps toward exiting a

Universally expected to pass on another tweak to Yield Curve Control (YCC) this week, the most exciting element to come from the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) two-day meeting may be a

With Japan’s wages continuing to lag prices and core CPI likely to slow to 1.6% over the next year, newly minted Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Kazuo Ueda will be

With plenty yet to learn about how incoming Bank of Japan (BOJ) governor Kazuo Ueda plans to extricate Japan from its greatest ever monetary easing experiment, the February 24 nomination

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) remains in no hurry to exit Yield Curve Control (YCC) and will step to the sidelines for now as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida prepares to

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will tilt guidance toward an April exit of ultra easy policy at next week’s meeting as Prime Minister Fumio Kishida prepares to hand over the

The Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) overnight doubling of the yield cap on 10-year Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) to 0.5% marks the first step in a subtle but significant months-in-the-planning handoff

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has initiated a gradual and calculated handover to his successor by softening the path to an eventual exit from ultra easy monetary policy, including

On April 22, 2022, as dollar/yen hovered between 128 and 129, we wrote that Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda – at heart a weak yen proponent – would resist