TOKYO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will likely raise interest rates again around June or July, and seek to triple its policy rate to at least 1.5% in the next two years, former BOJ board ...

saying that it was in the right direction and called for the need to shrink the BOJ's massive balance sheet. In a separate commentary written in 2022, she had warned of the cost of prolonged ...

Still, the Fed’s experience points to potential risks ahead for the BOJ as it tries to reduce its balance sheet without spooking markets. The Fed started tightening in 2022, but in June 2024 ...

BOJ executives probably want to raise short-term rates at least to 1.5% by the end of fiscal 2026, so they have scope to reduce borrowing costs when the economy faces another downturn, Sakurai said.

Still, the Fed’s experience points to potential risks ahead for the BOJ as it tries to reduce its balance sheet without spooking markets. The Fed started tightening in 2022, but in June last ...

BOJ discussed neutral rate estimate at December meeting, minutes show A passerby walks past in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo ...

While consumer inflation has moved above the BOJ's 2 per cent target recently, the increase was driven mostly by cost-push factors such as rising food and fuel prices that will likely dissipate ...

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday that underlying inflation is still somewhat below 2%. Ueda added that the Japanese central bank would maintain an accommodative policy to ...

If the BOJ continues to raise the rate, it will become close to the so-called neutral rate of interest, which neither stimulates nor cools the economy. The BOJ expects to raise the policy rate to ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to have two women on its decision-making board for the first time, marking a modest step toward improving gender diversity at the central bank as it struggles to catch ...

"Given that real rates continue to be very much in the red, an easy monetary environment’s been maintained,” said Himino, in the first public speech from a board member following the BOJ’s ...

The BOJ owned more than 50 percent of outstanding Japanese governments bonds as of the end of 2022. Critics say the central bank is effectively financing the government’s funding requirements.