BoJ policy board left its target overnight call rate steady at 0.50% at its meeting Tuesday. The decision, by unanimous vote, had been widely expected. The BoJ maintained its assessment of the economy...

The Bank of Japan has kept the Overnight Call Rate unchanged at 0.50%. It is the 23rd straight month the bank has kept rates on hold. In the bank’s words, the economy has now become 'sluggish' in the ...

The central banks of Australia and Japan have pumped more than $11 billion into their financial systems to ease their money market rates, which were close to near record highs as banks hoard their cas...

The Bank of Japan has stated that it is still concerned over the instability seen in the U.S. banking and finance sector, as well as how it will affect the global economy. The U.S. slowdown is drastic...

The Monetary Policy Board voted 7-0 in favor of retaining the 0.5% target on the uncollateralized call rate. The Board still has two vacancies. Today's decision was made on a day when the central bank...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) this morning as expected left its leading interest rate unchanged at 0.5% in a unanimous decision. The statement was only slightly softer than the August statement. According t...

The Bank of Japan has kept the Overnight Call Rate unchanged at 0.50%. It is the 22nd straight month the bank has kept rates on hold. In the bank’s words, the economy has now become “sluggish” in the ...

US interest rates and rate expectations fell sharply from mid-2007 through early 2008, but the term structure on the US dollar yield curve clearly shows markets expect much more through the coming two...

The Bank of Japan has stated that it sees U.S. economic slowdown and market instability as an increased risk to the Japanese economy. The minutes also said that attention needs to be paid to the degre...

Looking more closely at the details, there were only minor changes in the BoJ "View of the Economy", now released as part of the policy statement. The August statement "economic growth has been sluggi...

The Bank of Japan kept the interest rate inline with the market expectations, at 0.50%. The finance minister and the several bank officials had suggested a few times that the economy will have some to...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ), as widely expected, left its leading O/N target interest rate unchanged at 0.5% in a unanimous decision at today's monetary policy meeting. More interestingly, the BoJ revised...

Bank of Japan policymakers are acutely aware of the competing forces of growth and inflation in setting current monetary policy, according to minutes of the bank's meetings in April and May. While the...

Bank of Japan (BoJ) as widely expected left its leading interest O/N target rate unchanged at 0.5% in a unani-mous decision. Focus at today's meeting was whether BoJ would start to toe the recent more...

As widely expected Bank of Japan (BoJ) left its leading interest O/N target rate unchanged at 0.5% in a unani-mous decision. In addition, BoJ left its view of the economy broadly unchanged in the Mont...