The Bank of Japan announced March 19 it will end negative interest rates and review other ultra ... banks hold at the central bank from minus 0.1 percent to 0.1 percent. The unconventional policy ...

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end of a long period of stagnation. Source: FactSet, Bank of Japan By The New York ...

At its two-day meeting concluding on Friday, the BOJ raised its short-term policy rate from 0.25% to 0.5%, a level Japan has not seen in 17 years. It was made in a 8 to 1 vote with board member ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged Japan to stay alert for potential spillover effects from global market ...

In Japan, interest rates are set by the Bank of Japan's Policy Board in its Monetary Policy Meetings. The BoJ's official interest rate is the discount rate. Monetary Policy Meetings produce a ...

The Bank of Japan on Friday raised its policy interest rate 25 basis points ... the Bank of Japan had kept its rate at minus 0.1% since 2015 but decided to raise it to 0.1% last March and hiked ...

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.

Japan's central bank raised interest rates to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis and revised up its inflation forecasts.

(Bloomberg) — The Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise its benchmark rate Friday by the most in 18 years, in a show of boosted confidence over the sustainability of inflation as it ...