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Bank will lift rates to 0.5% by year-end

At its upcoming meeting, we expect the Bank of Japan to announce a reduction in its monthly bond purchases to ¥2tn over the next couple of years, with an initial reduction to ¥5tn. And we expect the Bank to hike its policy rate by another 20bp.

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