In an April 14-21 poll, 84% of economists, or 47 of 56, forecast no change to interest rates at the BOJ's next two policy meetings on April 30-May 1 and June 16-17. Only 52% of economists ...

The BOJ “will have to look at all the data and they will have to communicate very clearly to the markets how they are interpreting these data to explain their decisions,” she said.

The BOJ officials see the Trump administration’s tariff campaign and retaliatory actions against the US as likely to weaken Japan’s economy and possibly delaying progress toward the bank’s ...

The IMF still expects inflation will converge to the BOJ's 2% target, though that will happen in 2027 rather than in 2026, as previously expected, said Choueiri, who is also the global lender's ...

WASHINGTON, April 23 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is likely to push back the timing of further interest rate hikes as uncertainty triggered by U.S. tariffs has heightened downside risks to growth ...

Borrowing – the difference between total public sector spending and income – was £16.4 billion in March 2025; this was £2.8 billion more than in March 2024 and the third-highest ... The IMF's chief ...

Under a quantitative tightening (QT) programme laid out last year, the BOJ has been slowing bond purchases by around 400 billion yen per quarter to halve monthly purchases to 3 trillion yen by ...

The meeting will proceed the BOJ's two-day rate review on April 30-May 1, when the central bank will issue fresh quarterly growth and inflation forecasts.

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) published its Financial System Report on Wednesday, noting that “Japan's financial system has been maintaining stability on the whole.” Financial institutions need to ...