{"id":4792,"date":"2015-01-23T08:11:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T13:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4792"},"modified":"2015-01-23T08:11:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T13:11:26","slug":"kuroda-says-boj-to-mull-fresh-options-in-case-of-more-easing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=4792","title":{"rendered":"Kuroda Says BOJ to Mull Fresh Options in Case of More Easing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/bank-of-japan\/\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Kuroda Says BOJ to Mull Fresh Options in Case of More Easing<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/bank-of-japan\/\">Bank of Japan<\/a>\u00a0Governor Haruhiko Kuroda signaled the central bank may need to look at fresh options if more stimulus is needed to propel inflation to levels unseen since stagnation set in two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf, really, our possible path to 2 percent inflation is significantly affected, then of course we can make adjustment to our monetary policy,\u201d Kuroda said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in Davos,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.bloomberg.com\/switzerland\/\">Switzerland<\/a>, on Friday. Asked whether the BOJ will have to get more creative, he said \u201cyes, I think so.\u201d He declined to specify the options available.<\/p>\n<p>Kuroda, 70, spoke days after the BOJ cut its inflation projection for the coming fiscal year, a move that reinforced forecasts for further stimulus by October. While Kuroda\u2019s unprecedented scale of asset purchases has pulled the world\u2019s third-largest economy out of 15 years of entrenched deflation, he\u2019s confronting &#8212; like his European counterparts &#8212; mounting pressures depressing price gains, and subdued growth.<\/p>\n<p>Kuroda and his colleagues have channeled most of their purchases into the government-bond market, sending yields on 10-year notes to a record low of 0.195 percent this week. The BOJ\u2019s program also include exchange-traded funds and real-estate investment trusts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuroda Says BOJ to Mull Fresh Options in Case of More Easing Bank of Japan\u00a0Governor Haruhiko Kuroda signaled the central bank may need to look at fresh options if more stimulus is needed to propel inflation to levels unseen since stagnation set in two decades ago. \u201cIf, really, our possible path to 2 percent inflation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[57,85,122,2854,426,452,535,2096],"class_list":["post-4792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bank-of-japan","tag-boj","tag-central-bank","tag-haruhiko-kuroda","tag-inflation","tag-japan","tag-monetary-stimulus","tag-stagnation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4793,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4792\/revisions\/4793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}