In a widely anticipated move, the Bank of Japan on Jan. 24 raised its short-term policy rate to 0.50% from 0.25%. Read more here.

Setting rates in Japan will become a delicate balancing act if tariffs materialize.

The move comes in line with expectations from CNBC’s survey, where an overwhelming majority of economists predicted a hike.

The Bank of Japan has raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point, the highest in 17 years, signalling efforts to normalise monetary policy in response to persistent inflation and increasing wages.

A weaker yen is a boon for Japanese exporters’ profits but can squeeze households by increasing import costs. News reports, including from Reuters, foreshadowed the Bank of Japan’s landmark ...

The Bank of Japan delivered a widely expected 25 basis point hike to its key lending rate on Friday, bringing the overnight call rate to the highest since 2008 and putting pressure on the dollar. The ICE Dollar Index slipped 0.

Japan’s central bank has hiked interest rates as expected to a 17-year high as it continues on a path to normalise its monetary policy. On Friday (Jan 24), the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised short-term rates by 25 basis points to 0.5 per cent, its highest level since the 2008 global financial crisis.

Wall Street is pointing slightly lower in early trading but is on track to close the week with solid gains on healthy quarterly earnings reports from large U.S. corporations

In the eyes of Japanese economic policymakers, there have been few surprises from the nearly week-old Trump administration. That, in part, gave them confidence to raise interest rates again Friday. Why it matters: The Bank of Japan had held off hiking rates late last year,

The BOJ hiked short-term lending rates by a quarter point to 0.5%, which had been already priced into money markets after central bank officials, including Governor Kazuo Ueda, had clearly signalled earlier this month that policy tightening was on the table.