Tokyo: The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is considering scrapping its yield curve control programme and instead indicating in advance the amount of government bonds it plans to purchase, Jiji Press reports without saying where it got the information.
TOKYO: Japanese inflation slowed less than expected to 2 percent in January, data showed on Tuesday, hitting the central bank s target and firming expectations of an end to its outlier negative rates policy.
Bank of Japan Executive Director Seiichi Shimizu made some comments on the central bank’s inflation target, in his speech following the Japanese Consumer Price Index (CPI) released on Tuesday.