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Bank of Japan Expands QE Modestly
| | Fundamental Analysis | Mar 17 10 11:17 GMT
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While today's easing move by BoJ was only a small move, it underlines that, unlike most other countries, Japan is far from starting to exit is non-conventional easing measures and might even ease furt...
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BOJ Doubled Funding Operations. Dissenting Votes Increased Uncertainty on Future Easing
| | Action Insight | Mar 17 10 07:14 GMT
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Under the pressure from the government and dismal inflation outlook, the Bank of Japan announced to double the size of the fixed-rate funds-supplying operation against pooled collateral (the fixed-rat...
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BOJ May Ease Policy Wednesday
| | Fundamental Analysis | Mar 16 10 19:09 GMT
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The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will complete a two day policy meeting on March 17th. The BOJ has been under significant pressure from the Japanese government to take action to combat deflation and boost the ...
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BOJ to Extend and Expand QE
| | Action Insight | Mar 16 10 11:25 GMT
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The Bank of Japan will likely extend the duration and expand the size of the new lending facility (launched in December) so as to fight against deflation. This is likely the only change the central ba...
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Central Bank Forecasts Update
| | Action Insight | Dec 21 09 09:54 GMT
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In end-08, central banks worldwide reduce policy rates to stimulate economic growth, in hopes of combating the worst global recession since World War II. Apart from traditional easing measures, some c...
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BoJ Steps Up Intervention Rhetoric
| | Fundamental Analysis | Dec 01 09 12:48 GMT
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) today held an unscheduled policy board meeting. At the meeting it was decided to introduce a new funds-supplying operation. This new borrowing facility will allow financial ins...
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Bank of Japan: More Upbeat, More Balanced
| | Fundamental Analysis | Nov 20 09 10:38 GMT
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As expected, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) today left its target for the uncollateralised overnight call rate unchanged at 0.1% in a unanimous decision. However, BoJ again upgraded its view of the economy m...
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Japan: BoJ Unwinds Non-Conventional Easing
| | Fundamental Analysis | Oct 30 09 11:26 GMT
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Bank of Japan (BoJ) at today's monetary meeting announced plans to scrap most of its non-conventional easing measures. In addition, BoJ published new macroeconomic forecasts. BoJ's view of the economy...
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Bank of Japan Preview
| | Fundamental Analysis | Oct 29 09 15:22 GMT
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The focus of attention at tomorrow's monetary meeting is expected to mainly be on the release of the BoJ's revised growth and inflation forecast. We expect the BoJ's growth forecast to be revised up. ...
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Central Bank Watch: RBNZ to be the Next One to Tighten?
| | Action Insight | Oct 14 09 13:35 GMT
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RBA's 25bps-increase in policy rate in October marked the first rate hike in developed economies (and the second in the world after Israeli central bank) in the current easing cycle. Although producti...
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Japan: Upbeat BoJ Not Yet Ready to Unwind QE
| | Fundamental Analysis | Oct 14 09 11:46 GMT
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As expected, the Bank of Japan has left its leading O/N target interest rate unchanged at 0.1% in a unanimous decision in connection with today's monetary meeting. In its statement, BoJ upgraded its v...
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Japan: BoJ Sees Signs of Recovery
| | Fundamental Analysis | Sep 17 09 11:03 GMT
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Bank of Japan (BoJ) as expected left its leading O/N target rate unchanged at 0.1% in a unanimous decision at today's monetary meeting. In its monetary policy statement, BoJ raised its assessment of t...
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Bank of Japan Extends Extraordinary Liquidity Measures
| | Fundamental Analysis | Jul 15 09 12:12 GMT
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) in line with market expectations left the target for the O/N call rate unchanged at 0.1% in a unanimous decision. In addition, BoJ extended most of its non-conventional easing ...
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Not Exiting QE Yet: BOJ Downgraded Economic Forecasts And Extended Credit Measures
| | Action Insight | Jul 15 09 08:55 GMT
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Bank of Japan left its policy rate unchanged at 0.1%. At the same time, it also announced to extend the period for the emergency-credit programs and reduced the economic forecasts. In the accompanying...
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BOJ's Quarterly Tankan Survey: Improvement Seen but Failed to Alleviate Recession Worries
| | Action Insight | Jul 01 09 05:40 GMT
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Japan's quarterly Tankan survey showed improved, but lower than expected, sentiment in large corporations while small firms continued to struggle in June. The brightest spots were the decline in 'inve...
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Japan: BoJ Slightly More Positive on the Economy
| | Fundamental Analysis | Jun 16 09 11:19 GMT
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Bank of Japan as expected left its leading O/N target rate unchanged at 0.1% in a unanimous decision. No new non-conventional easing measures were announced and the target for the purchase of treasury...
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Japan: Bank of Japan Preview
| | Fundamental Analysis | Jun 15 09 10:04 GMT
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) today starts its two-day monetary meeting. The bank is expected to announce its decision at around 06:00 CET tomorrow morning. We expect BoJ to leave its leading O/N target rat...
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Japan: Raises its View of the Economy Slightly
| | Fundamental Analysis | May 22 09 13:01 GMT
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In line with expectations, at today's monetary meeting the BoJ decided to leave its leading O/N target rate unchanged at 0.1% in a unanimous decision. In addition, the bank decided to expand the range...
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Japan Overnight Call Rate Remains At 0.10%, Accepts Cross-Border Collateral
| | Fundamental Analysis | May 22 09 04:06 GMT
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The Bank of Japan decided by a unanimous vote to maintain the Overnight Call Rate at 0.10%. 'Having the lowest rate amid industrialized countries, economists argued that the low interest rate will not...
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Japan Overnight Call Rate Remains At 0.10%
| | Fundamental Analysis | Apr 30 09 07:22 GMT
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In an unusual short statement, the Bank of Japan decided by a unanimous vote to maintain the Overnight Call Rate at 0.10%. 'Having the lowest rate amid industrialized countries, economists argued that...
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BOJ Monetary Policy Meeting Produces Nothing New
| | Fundamental Analysis | Apr 07 09 22:17 GMT
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The Bank of Japan policy meeting came and went, but nothing substantial really happened. The bank decided to maintain the overnight call rate at 0.10% - the lowest among the industrialized world – whi...
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Japan: Bank of Japan Takes a Breather
| | Fundamental Analysis | Apr 07 09 14:27 GMT
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Bank of Japan (BoJ) as expected left its leading interest rate unchanged at 0.1% at today's monetary meeting in a unanimous decision. The range of eligible collateral for lending at BoJ was expanded s...
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Japan Overnight Call Rate Remains At 0.10%
| | Fundamental Analysis | Apr 07 09 04:11 GMT
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The Bank of Japan decided by a unanimous vote to maintain the Overnight Call Rate at 0.10% and in the same time to expand the range of eligible collateral for its credit lines...
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Fed And BOJ: Credit Easing Vs Quantitative Easing
| | Action Insight | Mar 19 09 04:12 GMT
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After the 2-day FOMC meeting, the Fed announced a massive quantitative easing plan which includes purchase of up to $300B of long term Treasury securities over the next 6 months as well as expansion o...
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Japan: BoJ Steps up Quantitative Easing
| | Fundamental Analysis | Mar 18 09 10:26 GMT
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The BoJ is cautiously stepping up its quantitative easing and at this stage it will probably prove to be an important contribution to preventing an unwelcome appreciation of JPY. While we believe the ...
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Japan Overnight Call Rate Left At 0.10%
| | Fundamental Analysis | Mar 18 09 04:24 GMT
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The Bank of Japan decided by a unanimous vote to maintain the Overnight Call Rate at 0.10%. Having the lowest rate amid industrialized countries, economists argued that the low interest rate will not ...
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Japanese Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes
| | Fundamental Analysis | Feb 24 09 00:11 GMT
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Japans money market had 'been nervous' while yields on treasury bills declined. The Bank of Japan members agree to monitor the recent rate cuts to see what effects come about. The members feel it is...
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Japan: BoJ to Start Purchasing Corporate Bonds
| | Fundamental Analysis | Feb 19 09 11:22 GMT
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As widely expected, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) left its leading O/N target rate unchanged at 0.1% in a unanimous decision. In addition, it announced it will start purchasing corporate bonds and extended ...
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Japan Overnight Call Rate Remains At 0.10%
| | Fundamental Analysis | Feb 19 09 04:50 GMT
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The Bank of Japan decided by a unanimous vote to maintain the Overnight Call Rate at 0.10%. Having the lowest rate amid industrialized countries, economists argued that the low interest rate will not ...
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BoJ Preview: Unconventional Easing to be Stepped Up
| | Fundamental Analysis | Feb 18 09 11:50 GMT
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Despite the recent dismal economic indicators, we expect BoJ to leave its leading O/N target rate unchanged at 0.1%. Most BoJ board members believe that cutting the O/N interest all the way to zero wi...
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Japanese Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes
| | Fundamental Analysis | Jan 27 09 00:06 GMT
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Some members are calling the current economic conditions an 'emergency'. Concern for financial situations to deteriorate sharply and the need for drastic measure may be needed. An adverse feedback loo...
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Japan: BoJ Fears a Return to Deflation
| | Fundamental Analysis | Jan 22 09 12:19 GMT
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Bank of Japan (BoJ) today, as expected, left its leading O/N target rate unchanged at 0.1% in a unanimous board decision. In addition, BoJ revised its GDP forecasts sharply lower for both FY 2008 and ...
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BoJ Keeps Rates Unchanged, Forecasts Deflation
| | Fundamental Analysis | Jan 22 09 04:25 GMT
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The Bank of Japan decided by a unanimous vote to maintain the Overnight Call Rate at 0.10%. Having the lowest rate amid industrialized countries, economists argued that the low interest rate will not ...
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Japan: BoJ Cuts Leading Rate by 20bp and Turns to Quantitative Easing "Light"
| | Fundamental Analysis | Dec 19 08 10:33 GMT
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As expected the Bank of Japan (BoJ) this morning cut its leading O/N target rate by 20 basis points to 0.1% in a seven-to-one vote - with one of the board hawks, Tadeo Noda, dissenting on the interest...
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Bank of Japan Cut Interest Rate by 20bp to 0.10%
| | Fundamental Analysis | Dec 19 08 05:59 GMT
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The Bank of Japan rate cut by 20 bps to 0.10% was within market expectations. Following the Fed rate cut to 0-0.25% earlier in the week, the BoJ was under a lot of pressure to indicate that they also ...
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BoJ Preview: Been There, Done That!
| | Fundamental Analysis | Dec 18 08 07:51 GMT
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We now expect the Bank of Japan (BoJ) to cut its leading O/N target rate by 20bp to 0.1% on Friday when the BoJ announces its interest rate decision following this week's monetary policy meeting. Whil...
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Japan Emergency Rate Meeting
| | Fundamental Analysis | Dec 02 08 06:28 GMT
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In an emergency meeting held by the Bank of Japan tonight, the policy board decided unanimously to keep the Overnight Call Rate at 0.30%. This comes after the BoJ had cut the interest rate from 0.50% ...
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Bank of Japan to Hold Emergency Meeting This Week
| | Fundamental Analysis | Dec 01 08 02:06 GMT
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The Bank of Japan will hold an emergency meeting this week to discuss plans on creating a lending facility for domestic firms struggling to get financing in current market conditions. The plan would a...
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The Race to Zero Interest Rates
| | Fundamental Analysis | Nov 28 08 18:41 GMT
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We expect December to be another active month for the foreign exchange market as central banks around the world take their interest rates to historically significant levels. There are 4 central banks ...
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Bank of Japan Divided on Future Policy, Meeting Minutes Reveal
| | Fundamental Analysis | Nov 27 08 05:15 GMT
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Minutes from the October's Bank of Japan meeting revealed policymakers were deeply divided on the appropriate monetary response as the world's second largest economy sinks to recession. The bank settl...
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Japanese Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes
| | Fundamental Analysis | Nov 27 08 00:24 GMT
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The monetary policy meeting minutes from Japan revealed that member Atsushi Mizuno voted against the 20 basis point rate cut at the October 31st meeting, stating that a cut would not have any effect o...
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Japan: BoJ Leaves Interest Rates Unchanged as Expected
| | Fundamental Analysis | Nov 21 08 09:21 GMT
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) as expected left its leading O/N target rate unchanged at 0.3% in a unanimous decision by its board members. In its statement the BoJ said that the economy has been increasingl...
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Bank of Japan Holds Rates Steady at 0.3%
| | Fundamental Analysis | Nov 21 08 05:10 GMT
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In a unanimous vote today, the Bank of Japan held its benchmark interest rate at 0.30%. The previous meeting saw the bank cut rates by 20bp, the first of such moves in seven years. It was also reveale...
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Bank Of Japan Keeps On Hold The Overnight Rate
| | Fundamental Analysis | Nov 21 08 03:52 GMT
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The Bank of Japan decided unanimously to keep the Overnight Call Rate at 0.30%. This comes after the BoJ had cut rates at the last meeting from 0.50% to 0.30%, while the market expected a full 25 basi...
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Japanese Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes- Risk To The Downside Still Seen
| | Fundamental Analysis | Nov 06 08 00:05 GMT
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All of the members of the Bank of Japan have agreed that the economic uncertainty is intensifying and that providing liquidity will not solve all the problems. Although the bank does feel that they sh...
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How The Bank Of Japan Got It So Very Wrong
| | Fundamental Analysis | Oct 31 08 17:10 GMT
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Japanese officials in the past fortnight had gone to great lengths to promote a softer yen and firmer share prices. Nice progress was being made toward each goal until the Bank of Japan bungled the pu...
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BoJ Cuts by 20 bps and Revises Growth Sharply Down
| | Fundamental Analysis | Oct 31 08 12:07 GMT
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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) this morning cut its leading O/N target interest rate by 20 bps to 0.3% in a split 4-4 decision. Three dissenting board members voted for cutting the O/N target rate by 25 bps ...
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Japan Overnight Call Rate Down To 0.30%. Yen Strengthens Further
| | Fundamental Analysis | Oct 31 08 05:28 GMT
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The Bank of Japan decided to cut the Overnight Call Rate, down to 0.30%. This comes, after the bank had kept the interest rate at 0.50% for almost two years, the lowest rate amid industrialized countr...
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Bank of Japan Cuts by 20bp to 0.30%, Yielding Mixed Reactions
| | Fundamental Analysis | Oct 31 08 05:18 GMT
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Dollar-Japanese Yen (USDJPY) drops after a split vote by the BOJ to cut rates, with the 25 bp easing decided by BOJ Gov Shirakawa. The news further underpins the market view that political pressure, t...
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Japan: "Solidarity" Cut from BoJ Tomorrow
| | Fundamental Analysis | Oct 30 08 13:14 GMT
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For a change, the outcome of tomorrow's monetary meeting at the Bank of Japan (BoJ) will not be trivial. We now believe BoJ will cut interest rates by 25 bp tomorrow. This is despite comments from Dep...
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