BoJ’s confidence in sustained 2% inflation growing

With pay hikes becoming increasingly widespread, the Bank of Japan is becoming more confident that it can meet its inflation target on a sustained basis. But with underlying inflation now clearly moderating, we only expect one more rate hike by the Bank at its July meeting.

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