{"id":38480,"date":"2013-05-22T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=38480"},"modified":"2013-05-22T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T04:05:36","slug":"japan-maintains-qe-targets-says-economy-picking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/05\/22\/japan-maintains-qe-targets-says-economy-picking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan maintains QE targets, says economy picking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\"><u>www.CentralBankNews.info<\/u><\/a> &nbsp; &nbsp; The Bank of Japan (BOJ) maintained its aim of expanding the monetary base by an annual 60-70 trillion yen, along with purchases of Japanese government bonds and other securities, and voiced confidence that the economy was now picking up speed and consumer prices should start to rise.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The BOJ, which launched its &#8220;new phase of monetary easing&#8221; on April 4, said it would continue with its plan to buy government bonds so the outstanding amount rises by 50 trillion yen a year and the average remaining maturity of these purchases will be about seven years, along with annual purchases of exchange-traded funds worth 1.0 trillion a year and real estate trusts worth some 30 billion yen.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; In addition, the BOJ will continue to buy commercial paper and corporate bonds until the outstanding amounts reach 2.2 trillion yen and 3.2 trillion yen, respectively, by the end of this year.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; The BOJ, which launched its new, massive quantitative easing plan following last year&#8217;s election of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the installment of a new central bank governor, sounded upbeat about Japan&#8217;s economy, which has been languishing for years and battling deflation for 15 years.<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;Japan&#8217;s economy has started picking up,&#8221; the BOJ said, adding exports had stopped falling as overseas economies were moving out of a deceleration phase and heading toward a pick-up.<br \/><a name='more'><\/a><br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By www.CentralBankNews.info &nbsp; &nbsp; The Bank of Japan (BOJ) maintained its aim of expanding the monetary base by an annual 60-70 trillion yen, along with purchases of Japanese government bonds and other securities, and voiced confidence that the economy was now picking up speed and consumer prices should start to rise.&nbsp; &nbsp; The BOJ, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/05\/22\/japan-maintains-qe-targets-says-economy-picking-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Japan maintains QE targets, says economy picking up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}