TOKYO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates in December with the government expected to tolerate such a decision, three government sources familiar with the ...

THE Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is warning households to budget for higher food and utility bills, and businesses to prepare for elevated input costs in 2026 as it projects a sharp rise in inflation driven ...

TOKYO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is "nearing" a decision to raise interest rates and will not wait until after next year's spring wage negotiations end, its board member Kazuyuki Masu was ...

The Bank of Japan should proceed cautiously with interest-rate increases, tightening at a pace that is neither too fast nor too slow, policy board member Asahi Noguchi said Thursday. The most ...

Governor Kazuo Ueda said the neutral interest rate can only be estimated within a fairly wide range at present. Ueda's comments imply the BOJ has ample room on the upside before its rate becomes ...

TOKYO—The timing of Japan’s next shift in monetary policy appears to hinge on a hard-to-pin-down detail that fascinates economists: the so-called neutral level of interest rates. Bank of Japan Gov.

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda used diplomacy and nodded to the dangers of inflation and a weak yen to sell his plan for a December rate hike to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who only last year called ...

The market value of the Bank of Japan’s holdings of exchange-traded funds reached a record high at the end of September, according to its first financial statement since deciding to start offloading ...

TOKYO, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan chief Kazuo Ueda used diplomacy and nodded to the dangers of inflation and a weak yen to sell his plan for a December rate hike to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, ...

THE Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) is shoring up the island’s financial stability in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, facilitating billions of dollars in emergency cash and waiving key transaction fees to ensure ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan is preparing markets for a possible interest rate hike as soon as next month, sources say, reviving previous hawkish language as worries about sharp yen declines ...