Four months after a historic departure from the negative interest rate policy, the Bank of Japan announced on July 31 that it will hike interest rates to around 0.25 percent. On the final day of ...

A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation held steady near 3% in October, data showed on Tuesday, reinforcing the central bank's view that rising wages are prodding more firms to pass on ...

The Bank of Japan is laying the groundwork to raise interest rates again, but has left markets guessing how soon and at what ...

The Bank of Japan’s interest payments on excessive reserves reached a record high, underscoring the costs of policy ...

Japan's three megabanks raised their annual profit forecasts to all-time highs on Thursday, fuelled by robust lending demand ...

An end to negative short-term rates would be Japan’s first interest rate hike since 2007. Related News BOJ to debate ending negative rates in March if wage survey strong--sources ...

The Bank of Japan is laying the groundwork to raise interest rates again, but has left markets guessing how soon and at what pace it could push up still-low borrowing costs.

Japan's central bank has raised the cost ... The hike means that there are no longer any countries left with negative interest rates. When negative rates are in force people have to pay to deposit ...

Japan's central bank has raised the cost ... It meant that there were no longer any countries in the world left with negative interest rates. In 2016, the BoJ cut its main interest rate below ...

However, I would hold off adding to stock exposure until there is a clearer indication about when the Bank of Japan will end its policy of negative interest rates and when the Federal Reserve will ...

Silvio Gesell supported the idea of negative nominal interest rates in the late 19th century, but the issue was little talked about until Japan’s deflationary trappings towards the latter stages of ...

Japan’s monetary policy shift, ending its experiment with negative interest rates, is unlikely to yield the expected results amid China’s economic stagnation. Japan is hopeful about the ...