The bank hoped to finish offloading the shares by March next year. The BOJ has also experienced a continued decline of approximately 10 billion yen in bank shares per month in recent years, which ...

During his five-year stint as BOJ board member until 2005, Ueda played a key role in the central bank's introduction of forward guidance that pledged to keep interest rates at zero "until ...

BOJ conducts special survey on impact of its unconventional policy Survey shows QQE, YCC impaired bond market function Review likely to offer theoretical backbone of policy shift BOJ to hold ...

The BOJ’s holdings of the shares purchased from banks hit zero as of July 10, falling from ¥2.5 billion ($17.4 million) 10 days ago, according to its balance sheet report.

As part of the decision, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years, lifting its short-term rate to “around zero to 0.1%” from minus 0.1%, according to a ...

The Bank of Japan will likely hold fire for the next few months due to growing concerns about the impact of U.S. tariffs, a former member of the BOJ’s policy board says.

Japan’s central bank kept interest rates unchanged Friday despite rising inflation but hinted that it could gradually abandon years of ultra-cheap money, sending the yen soaring and stocks tumbling.

With the BOJ set to raise interest rates as higher prices ripple through the economy, a key question for stock investors is what policymakers plan to do with this enormous pile of funds, and when.

BOJ’s Ueda Says Rate Hikes Will Only Come When Economy Is Ready Economists and market participants expect the central bank to hold the policy rate unchanged at its next meeting By Megumi Fujikawa ...

The Bank of Japan finished selling millions of dollars of stocks it bought from besieged banks during a domestic banking crisis in the early 2000s and the later Lehman Shock, ending a nearly two ...