Mergers and acquisitions among Japanese regional banks may accelerate as they seek scale to benefit from higher interest ...

Some Bank of Japan policymakers called for keeping interest rates steady for the time being due to uncertainty over the ...

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged Tuesday and said it would taper its purchase of government bonds at a slower ...

Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital slowed sharply in June due to temporary cuts to utility bills but stayed well ...

Board member Naoki Tamura said underlying inflation had been on track towards achieving the BOJ's 2% target and rising at a ...

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 per cent in January on the view Japan was making progress towards ...

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady today and decided to decelerate the pace of its balance sheet drawdown next year, signaling its preference to move cautiously in removing remnants of its ...

The Bank of England has left its interest rates on hold at 4.25% during its Thursday meeting, though the bank has indicated ...

The administration and its supporters are fond of blaming the Fed for economic problems. They should concentrate, instead, on fixing the nation's fiscal problems.

When the Fed reduces its rate, it often — though not always — leads to lower costs for consumer and business borrowing, ...

Neither of the two decisions announced by the Bank of Japan’s policy board on Tuesday were a surprise. The BoJ held the policy rate at 0.5 per cent, and announced that the quantitative easing taper ...

TOKYO] Some Bank of Japan (BBOJ) policymakers called for keeping interest rates steady for the time being due to uncertainty ...