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Japanese Banks Step Up Digitization To Retain Customers Amid Rising Rates
Japan's banks face an unfamiliar environment after the central bank reversed its longtime policy of negative interest rates ...
Small but rising Japanese opposition party warns against near-term BOJ rate hike
The Bank of Japan should hold off raising interest rates until the economy achieves a stronger recovery, Sohei Kamiya, head ...
Japan households' inflation expectations steady, on track to hit BOJ goal
Japanese households' inflation expectations held steady in the three months to June, a Bank of Japan survey showed on Monday, ...
BOJ Completes Sale of Stock Holdings, Market Focus Shifts to ETFs
The focus now shifts to the BOJ's timing and strategy for unloading its 37-trillion-yen holdings of exchange-traded funds ...
About 85% of Japan households expect prices to rise a year from now, BOJ says
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -About 85% of Japanese households expect prices to rise a year from now, a quarterly central bank survey showed on Monday. The figure compared with 86.7% in the ...
Analysis-Japan election could further hamper BOJ's drive to raise rates
Japan's central bank may face political pressure to keep interest rates low for longer than it wants, as opposition parties favouring tax cuts and loose monetary policy are expected to gain influence ...
BOJ to Consider Revising up Inflation Forecast at July Meeting, Sources Say
The new projections will be announced after the BOJ's next policy meeting on July 30-31, when the board will conduct a ...