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Japanese stock futures rose, indicating the Nikkei 225 Stock Average will climb for a fifth day, amid speculation Bank of Japan measures to fight deflation will boost corporate profits.
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Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda gave himself two years to do “whatever it takes” to end deflation and revive the world’s third-largest economy. He may have less than half that time to produce results.
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The Bank of Japan needs to do more to curb the yen’s advance by increasing its purchases of government bonds with longer maturities, according to Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co.
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The Bank of Japan could usher in a growth spurt unseen in a generation by stepping up stimulus and ending deflation, according to Haruhiko Kuroda, the head of the Asian Development Bank and a potential contender for BOJ chief.
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The Bank of Japan under Governor Masaaki Shirakawa’s successor may buy longer bonds and cut the deposit rate paid to lenders as it steps up efforts to defeat deflation, the bond market is signaling.
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Japan’s debt yields are the lowest in seven months relative to its major economic peers as a surprise contraction in the world’s third-largest economy cements expectations the central bank will print more money.
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The Bank of Japan expanded its asset-purchase program for the third time in four months, and will reconsider its objectives for inflation as incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urges more action to end price declines.
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A decade and a half after Japan slumped into deflation, the central bank is set to signal its strongest effort yet to reverse the trend. The biggest challenge may be that the nation has come to rely on falling prices.
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Japan’s incoming Prime Minister Shinzo Abe backed the central bank when it raised interest rates in 2006, a move he now says was a mistake. His shift may signal less tolerance for deflation in the third-largest economy.
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With his nation’s economy contracting under disaster damage of as much as 25 trillion yen ($310 billion), Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa is signaling that his biggest worry is inflation.
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