The Bank of Japan (BOJ) increased its policy rate by 25 basis points to 0.5% on Jan. 24, 2025, marking the highest level since 2008. This decision aligns with a CNBC survey conducted from Jan. 15-20, ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, with a 7.2% share of domestic loans and 9.0% of deposits as of March 2024, is one of Japan’s Big Three banking groups. Compared with its two megabank rivals, SMFG has ...

Top News Bank of Japan Resumes Hiking Rates as Economy Strengthens The Bank of Japan raised its target for the overnight call rate to 0.5% from 0.25%, making its third rate hike since ending its ...

The USD/JPY price analysis shows a bullish day for the yen after upbeat inflation data and a rate hike from the Bank of Japan ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has made its most aggressive monetary policy decision in over a decade, raising interest rates by 25 ...

World shares have advanced after U.S. stocks rose to a record and the Bank of Japan raised its key lending rate. U.S. futures ...

The Bank of Japan increased interest rates on Friday to their highest in 17 years and signalled more hikes to come, sending ...

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Analysts at BBH said: “Two-day Bank of Japan meeting ends Friday with an expected 25 bp hike to 0.5%. Markets have firmed up ...

Governor Kazuo Ueda and his fellow board members lifted the overnight call rate by a quarter-percentage point to 0.5% at the ...

Following its first policy meeting of the year, the BoJ announced that it hiked the short-term rate target by 25 bps from ...

The yen rose after the Bank of Japan (BOJ) hiked rates on Friday and revised up its inflation forecasts, while the Australian ...