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Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... unchanged at its April meeting. Ever the optimist, the BOJ summarised its view in its "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices (April 2021)" report, saying: "Although the level of Japan's economic activity, mainly in the face-to-face services sector ...

Chief economist update: Fed's on target, BOJ takes out target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... expansion activity in its domestic economy. Just like the Fed, it deleted something from the "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices" report that accompanied its decision. The sentence, "The timing of the year-on-year rate of change in the CPI reaching ...

The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... All good but I feel that there's a trick here somewhere. The fine print in the BOJ's 'Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices (October 2017)' report says that "The consumption tax hike scheduled to take place in October 2019 will affect the GDP growth ...

The BOJ's educated hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... and stays above the target in a stable manner". When would that be? In its quarterly "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices" update (released after the conclusion of its 19-20 July meeting), the BOJ lowered its FY17/18 core CPI projection to 1.1% ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... of ¥80 trillion -- at the conclusion of its 26-27 April meeting. In the accompanying "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices" report, the BOJ had become more confident with regards to growth. It now sees the economy in a moderate "expansion" trend ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... toward 2percent -- the price stability target..." These, a day before it released its "Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices" report where it scaled down its growth and inflation forecasts (I'm pretty sure they've already seen this before they convened ...

Jap economy to grow faster than expected in 2004-2005: BoJ

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2004
... economic growth was expected to be \"above the forecasts for fiscal 2004 presented in the Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices released in April\". In April the bank predicted gross domestic product would grow 3%-3.2% in the year to March 2005. It ...
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