BOJ stands pat on policy as quake’s economic impact remains unclear
[ad_1] In a widely expected move, the Bank of Japan left the world’s last negative rate policy unchanged Tuesday, due in part to uncertainty over how the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that struck Ishikawa Prefecture on Jan. 1 will affect the Japanese economy.Market participants and observers are closely watching for when the BOJ will start exiting negative rates, amid growing expectations that the central bank will likely seek normalization from its […]