The Bank of Japan looks set to raise interest rates this week unless Trump’s inauguration address as U.S. president on Monday rattles financial markets, say people familiar with the central bank’s ...

The decision marks BOJ's first-rate hike since July last year. Interestingly, the rate hike came days after the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump. Ahead of potential repercussions from ...

Japan's central bank has increased the cost of borrowing to its highest level in 17 years after consumer price rises ...

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

As other major central banks move to cut the high interest rates they had used to curb inflation, Japan is, as usual, bucking the trend. After encouraging a period of rising prices, the Bank of ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates again this year and see borrowing costs reach levels deemed neutral to ...

EUROZONE government bond yields and the euro held steady on Thursday (Jan 30) after the European Central Bank (ECB) cut ...

THE EXPECTATION: The Bank of Japan looks set to raise interest rates ... to people familiar with the central bank’s thinking. Market expectations for an imminent rate increase have gathered ...

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.

and pushed up short-term interest rates to 0.25% in July. BOJ policymakers have repeatedly said the central bank will keep raising rates, if Japan makes progress in achieving a cycle in which ...

Last week, the central bank raised interest rates to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis on the view Japan was on the cusp of sustainably achieving its 2% inflation target.