The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a ...

News reports, including from Reuters, foreshadowed the Bank of Japan’s landmark exit from negative interest rates in the lead-up to the decision. So did economic ... is not in a bubble-like ...

The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25% Friday, noting that inflation is holding at a ...

The widely expected move underscores the central bank’s resolve to steadily push up interest rates to around 1%, a level analysts see as neither cooling nor overheating Japan’s economy.

The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to the highest level since 2008 and took a more bullish view on the strength of ...

Further deliberations are expected to be required for the Bank of Japan to explore future interest rate hikes, with its key ...

Japan’s economy ... for a near-term interest rate hike by the central bank. But a downward revision on consumption underscores the fragile nature of the economic recovery, and leaves uncertainty ...

“As the economy continues to show good, continued momentum towards a 1.5 to 2 per cent growth in Japan, the BOJ is going to regularly increase and normalise the interest rate structure.

ending its negative interest rate policy, which amounts to negative borrowing rates. Japan’s longtime ultra-lax monetary policy was meant to wrest the economy out of deflationary tendencies and ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan raised ... in the global economy, markets and geopolitics: Asia BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda and his fellow board members lifted the overnight call rate by a quarter ...

The central bank has signaled that more interest rate raises may be coming, while stressing it plans to be extremely cautious to ensure the economy holds steady. A Japanese flag flutters at the ...