What should we make of the BoJ's latest moves?

Today’s announcements of a new asset purchase scheme by the Bank of Japan (BoJ) and its symbolic lowering of the key policy rate are not game changers and the tepid market response is probably justified. But they do at least show that the BoJ is willing to think imaginatively and broaden the range of policy tools it uses to combat deflation.

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