Bank of Japan in no hurry to ease further

The BoJ today only marginally tweaked its economic forecasts, and took a sanguine view of the upcoming consumption tax hike. It was therefore no surprise that policy settings were left unchanged. However, with underlying inflaton likely to fall short of the target, there is still more work do to.

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