{"id":22891,"date":"2011-08-04T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?guid=3237091511042912c123770e49bcbd07"},"modified":"2011-08-04T03:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-04T07:51:00","slug":"bank-of-japan-holds-rate-at-0-10-expands-qe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/08\/04\/bank-of-japan-holds-rate-at-0-10-expands-qe\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan Holds Rate at 0.10%, Expands QE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boj.or.jp\/en\/index.htm\" style=\"color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;\">Bank of Japan<\/a>&nbsp;held its&nbsp;uncollateralized overnight call rate unchanged at a range of 0 to 0.1% by a unanimous vote. &nbsp;However the BOJ did decide &#8220;to enhance monetary easing by increasing the total size of the Asset Purchase Program by about 10 trillion yen from about 40 trillion yen to about 50 trillion yen&#8221;. &nbsp; The Bank said it &#8220;deemed it necessary to further enhance monetary easing, thereby ensuring a successful transition from the recovery phase following the earthquake disaster to a sustainable growth path with price stability,&#8221;.<\/span><\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-edit.g?blogID=8290544642025682538&amp;postID=1346599674469083700&amp;from=pencil\" name=\"more\"><\/a><\/span><br \/><a name='more'><\/a><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">The Bank of Japan also held its&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/07\/bank-of-japan-makes-no-changes-to.html\">monetary policy<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\">&nbsp;interest rate&nbsp;unchanged in July this year. &nbsp;The Bank last changed its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/2011\/03\/bank-of-japan-holds-rate-at-010-expands.html\">asset purchase program<\/a> in March this year, when it added a further 5 trillion yen to its target. &nbsp;Japan reported annual headline consumer price inflation of 0.2% in June, and 0.3% in both May and April, meanwhile core inflation rose 0.6% in April, as Japan finally begins to see some positive inflation figures. &nbsp;The Bank is forecasting real GDP growth of 0.2-0.6% in fiscal 2011, and 2.5-3.0% in fiscal 2012.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;\"><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralbanknews.info\/\" style=\"color: #3778cd; text-decoration: none;\" >www.CentralBankNews.info<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/8290544642025682538-1346599674469083700?l=www.centralbanknews.info' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Bank of Japan&nbsp;held its&nbsp;uncollateralized overnight call rate unchanged at a range of 0 to 0.1% by a unanimous vote. &nbsp;However the BOJ did decide &#8220;to enhance monetary easing by increasing the total size of the Asset Purchase Progra&#8230;<\/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-22891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}