Friday, January 19, 2007

Japan stands pat on rates due toweak consumption

Japan stands pat on rates due toweak consumption

By Yuka Hayashi

The Wall Street Journal Asia

19 Jan 2007



TOKYO—The Bank of Japan’s decision to forgo an interest-rate increase shows the central bank isn’t prepared to risk derailing economic growth in its quest to abandon its extremely easy monetary policy. Financial markets had speculated until a few days... read more...

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