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BoJ’s growth optimism won’t translate into tighter policy

The Bank of Japan left its upbeat assessment of economic conditions intact at today’s meeting. But inflation remains a long way below its projections, so further reductions in the Board’s forecasts next month are all but guaranteed. The upshot is that policy tightening remains a long way off.

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