The BOJ decided on Friday to offer no new lending from July under its fund-provisioning program to stimulate bank lending. The program’s outstanding loans stood at ¥77 trillion ($496 billion ...

Japan has “completely” ended deflation and it’s absolutely natural for the central bank to proceed with rate hikes to normalize policy, according to former BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, whose term was ...

An end to negative interest rate, which has been in place since 2016, would mark a landmark shift away from the BOJ's massive stimulus program and Japan's first interest rate hike since 2007.

In a Jan. 8-15 poll released on Thursday, all but two economists surveyed, 59 of 61, said the BOJ would raise borrowing costs again, to 0.50% by end-March. Among 32 who expect a hike this quarter ...

While analysts polled by Reuters last month had predicted the BOJ would raise rates to 0.5% by end-March, they have been divided on whether the move would come in January or at a subsequent ...

In a Jan. 8-15 poll released on Thursday, all but two economists surveyed, 59 of 61, said the BOJ would raise borrowing costs again, to 0.50% by end-March. Among 32 who expect a hike this quarter ...

In a Jan. 8-15 poll released on Thursday, all but two economists surveyed, 59 of 61, said the BOJ would raise borrowing costs again, to 0.50% by end-March. Among 32 who expect a hike this ...

In a Jan. 8-15 poll released on Thursday, all but two economists surveyed, 59 of 61, said the BOJ would raise borrowing costs again, to 0.50% by end-March. Among 32 who expect a hike this quarter and ...