The Bank of Japan is close to ending eight years of negative interest rate policy, with expected historical wage hikes ... and were mostly done by year-end, say sources familiar with the bank ...

The return of inflation and wage growth is giving the Bank of Japan room to raise interest rates and declare the end ... rate policy, and in 2016, it went a step further by implementing negative ...

The Bank of Japan raised its short-term interest rate to the highest in seventeen years on Friday as expected, aiming for a ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) board discussed the role of the economys neutral interest rate in shaping monetary policy during ...

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan raised interest ... the overnight call rate to 0.5% from 0.25%, making its third rate hike after ending the world’s negative interest-rate policy in March.

TOKYO, Jan 24 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday ... The BOJ made no change to its guidance on future policy, saying that it will continue to raise interest rates if its ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates ... The BOJ made no change to its guidance on future policy, saying that it will continue to raise interest rates if its economic and price forecasts ...

The Bank of Japan increased the rate for the first time in 17 years in March last year, ending its negative interest rate policy, which amounts to negative borrowing rates. Japan’s longtime ...

The Bank of Japan on Friday raised its policy interest rate 25 basis points from 0.25% to 0.5%, putting it at its highest level since October 2008. "Japan's economy is likely to keep growing at a ...

The Bank of Japan increased interest rates on Friday ... sticking to our forecast that the policy rate will reach an above-consensus 1.25 percent by the end of next year", Thieliant said before ...

TOKYO (dpa-AFX) - The Bank of Japan ... rate to around 0.5 percent from 0.25 percent. This was the highest since the global financial crisis in 2008. The BoJ had ended its negative interest rate ...