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18.01.2022 14:40

BOJ’s Kuroda: Will ease monetary policy without hesitation as needed

The Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) Haruhiko Kuroda said that the central bank “will ease policy further without hesitation as needed” yet another time, as he speaks at the post-monetary policy meeting press conference scheduled on Tuesday.

Additional quotes

No need to change current monetary easing.

Will patiently continue current powerful monetary easing.

In many cases commodity-driven inflation has been short-lived in Japan.

Wages are rising moderately reflecting tight labor market.

Necessary to pay attention to whether higher prices are not negatively impacting households.

Market reaction

USD/JPY is keeping its range below 115.00 on these above comments. The spot is, however, up 0.22% on the day, currently trading at 114.85.

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Session	Financial Centres	UTC/GMT OpenClose		EET OpenClose		Local Time OpenClose
Pacific	Wellington	19:00	04:00	22:00	07:00	22:00	07:00
Session	Financial Centres	UTC/GMT OpenClose		EET OpenClose		Local Time OpenClose
Pacific	Sydney	21:00	06:00	00:00	09:00	00:00	09:00
Session	Financial Centres	UTC/GMT OpenClose		EET OpenClose		Local Time OpenClose
Asian	Tokyo	23:00	08:00	02:00	11:00	02:00	11:00
Session	Financial Centres	UTC/GMT OpenClose		EET OpenClose		Local Time OpenClose
Asian	Hong Kong, Singapore	00:00	09:00	03:00	12:00	03:00	12:00
Session	Financial Centres	UTC/GMT OpenClose		EET OpenClose		Local Time OpenClose
European	Frankfurt, Zurich, Paris	06:00	15:00	09:00	18:00	9:00	18:00
Session	Financial Centres	UTC/GMT OpenClose		EET OpenClose		Local Time OpenCloseе
European	London	07:00	16:00	10:00	19:00	10:00	19:00
Session	Financial Centres	UTC/GMT OpenClose		EET OpenClose		Local Time OpenClose
American	New York	12:00	21:00	15:00	00:00	15:00	00:00
Session	Financial Centres	UTC/GMT OpenClose		EET OpenClose		Local Time OpenClose
American	Chicago	13:00	22:00	16:00	01:00	16:00	01:00