Bank will stay the course

The Bank of Japan is coming under renewed pressure to lift interest rates or abandon Yield Curve Control as inflation and long-term bond yields surge. But the Bank will probably stick to its view that inflation will fall back below target before long and we expect long-term interest rates to decline again, too. The upshot is that the Bank will keep current policy settings unchanged.

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