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The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... predictions of when it would achieve its 2% inflation target - from 2016 to 2018 and recently, 2020. This was not lost on new BOJ board member Goushi Kataoka who disagreed with majority vote (8-1) to keep policy unchanged. Notes 1 and 2 in the policy ...

More negatives

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2016
... built "concrete beaches" and "bridges to nowhere". And so far... it's gone nowhere. At its 29 January meeting when the BOJ Board decided to take interest rates down from positive 0.1% to negative 0.1%, the Japanese central bank promised that "It will ...

Steady with a chance of a surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... will again meet to talk about monetary policy. Chances are there's little chance of a change in policy settings. The BOJ board would decide to keep settings as they did at the 7-8 April gabfest -- key interest rate at 0-0.1% and increase the monetary ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... aim of 2.0% inflation, the more real wages fall - not a good portent for spending and by extension, the economy. The BOJ Board meets tomorrow. Expectations are for them Board to do nothing while they continue to observe the effects of the consumption ...
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