BOJ isn’t fretting much about rising bond yields – for now
Investors in Japan’s government bond market are getting a glimpse of life without heavy intervention by the Bank of Japan, which is showing little sign of reverting to a hands-on…
BOJ bids final farewell to Kuroda’s radical policy experiment
In rare criticism of its past policies, the Bank of Japan said former governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s stimulus didn’t change consumer psychology as much as planned, continuing a symbolic shift away…
Investors reload rate hike bets in Japan
Investors are betting a slide in the yen will force a hawkish shift at the Bank of Japan and are shorting bonds, buying bank shares and bracing for rates to…
BOJ faces fresh challenge as politics, yen complicate rate hikes
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda’s efforts to lift rock-bottom borrowing costs face fresh challenges as a yen rebound and the new political leadership’s preference for loose monetary policy raise…
Bank of Japan’s hawkish whispers drowned out by rowdy yen selloff
The Bank of Japan’s decision to keep policy unchanged last week gave yen bears plenty of sell cues, but largely overlooked in the stampede were signals the central bank could…
Investors manoeuvre, warily, for long-shot BOJ policy move
From a rising yen to debt market derivatives, market signals reveal how investors are going for some cheap but fail-safe options to make money on the off chance the Bank…
Politics, Fed seen swaying Japan’s yen intervention thinking
The Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole symposium this week looms as a key risk for Japanese authorities worried that new hawkish signals from US central bankers could trigger another sharp yen…
BOJ in a bind as price pressures heighten case for early policy tweak
The Bank of Japan is caught in a dilemma with growing prospects of sustained inflation heightening the case for an early tweak to its yield control policy, despite Governor Kazuo…
Japan’s changing views on price hikes open door for BOJ policy tweak
Japanese consumers may finally be shedding their decades-old frugal mindset, spending more on items that retailers were once too afraid to raise prices on and paving the way for the…
Trauma of Japan’s deflation battle keeps BOJ wary of policy shift
Japan’s bitter memories of its decades-long battle with deflation hang heavily over the central bank’s deliberations to take its first modest step away from ultra-loose monetary policy, even as inflation…
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