BoJ: No fireworks offered – BBH
|The Bank of Japan left policy on hold and a takeaway is that a new Board member (Kataoka) argued that more stimulus is needed if the BOJ's inflation target is to be reached, explains the research team at BBH.
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“This is important. Until now, Kuroda was criticized for doing too much. Now a new voice is calling for more, not less. To be sure this does not mean that more stimulus will be delivered but for the first time, there can be a debate within Kuroda's framework and not simply old Shirakawa acolytes pushing back against the considerably more activist monetary policy.”
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