by K-man | July 30th, 2018, 15:02:48 | BOJ, Central Banks
BOJ 31.07.2018 last preview Well I don’t have much to add to my last week’s preview to be honest. The BOJ watchers seem pretty much aligned with my expectations of what is reasonably to be expected, IF ANY CHANGE AT ALL. My base case scenario is there will...
by K-man | July 20th, 2018, 16:36:39 | BOJ, Central Banks
A word of caution on JPY after the Reuters pieces First: The Reuters article sites “sources close to BOJ thinking”. These are by no means official comments. BOJ watchers have repeatedly pointed out in the past months it was about time BOJ came up with some...
by K-man | June 15th, 2018, 02:47:11 | BOJ, Central Banks
BOJ April 2018 Monetary Policy decision on 15.06.2018 Leaves Interest Rate on Excess Reserves (IOER) unchanged at -0.10% Maintain its policy framework of “QQE with Yield Control” around 0.00% Maintains asset purchases at an annual pace of JPY 80T Maintains...
by Ryan Littlestone | June 11th, 2018, 08:06:47 | BOJ, Central Banks, ECB, Fed, FOMC, News
Risk looks better as we switch from the G7 mess to the US/NK summit Trump’s a busy man and he’s probably glad to be gone from the G7 shambles. It seemed the main priority for six of the seven members was just getting any sort of statement out rather than...
by K-man | April 27th, 2018, 03:05:04 | BOJ, Central Banks
BOJ April 2018 Monetary Policy decision and Economic Outlook on 27.04.2018 Leaves Interest Rate on Excess Reserves (IOER) unchanged at -0.10% Maintain its policy framework of “QQE with Yield Control” around 0.00% Maintains asset purchases at an annual pace...
by K-man | April 9th, 2018, 10:25:11 | BOJ, Central Banks
It Takes Time To Change Deflationary Mindset (a lot) To maintain the 2013 joint statement with govt; plan to complete new 5-year term BOJ to consider the economy at each policy meeting and make the proper choices Reiterates that BOJ has not reached the point to...