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BoJ more eager to ease, but won’t cut rates this year

The Bank of Japan’s pledge today “to reexamine economic and price developments” at its next policy meeting has further fuelled speculation of a rate cut in October. Governor Kuroda added in his press conference that the Board “has become more eager to ease”. Ultimately however, we think that any further actions will be limited to increased purchases of ETF and shorter-duration government bonds.

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