Japan's annual interest payments on government debt could surge more than 50% over the next few years, government estimates ...

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.

(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 ...

“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.

such as Japan. The central bank said it would continue to raise interest rates if economic growth and inflation stayed in line with its projections. “The likelihood of achieving the bank’s ...

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 ...

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 ...