The BOJ's holdings of long-term government bonds stood at 582.99 trillion yen at the end of the fiscal first half, down 1.6 trillion yen from a year earlier and marking the first decline in 16 years.

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As widely expected, the BOJ kept unchanged its YCC targets, set at -0.1% for short-term interest rates and around zero for the 10-year bond yield, at a two-day policy meeting that ended Tuesday.

Last year, the BOJ ended its bond yield curve control and began tapering its huge bond buying. It raised short-term rates to 0.5% in January on the view Japan was making progress towards durably ...

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The BoJ also trimmed its core inflation forecast for FY 2025 to 2.2% from 2.7% and expects it to ease further to 1.7% in FY 2026 before ticking up to 1.9% in FY 2027.

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is taking the macro world for a spin. It's shaking up its yield curve control (YCC) policy, expanding its trading band for 10-year GDP yields from a range of 50 basis ...

The BOJ raised its short-term policy rate to 0.5% in January on the view Japan was on the cusp of sustainably achieving its 2% inflation target backed by solid wage gains.