Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda comments from earlier:
Adding more now:
- Japan’s economy continues to pick up as a trend
- BOJ must continue to support economy’s recovery from pandemic with powerful monetary easing
- expected rise in inflation is driven mostly by energy costs, lacking sustainability
- we aren’t seeing signs of sharp rise in medium-, long-term inflation expectations in japan
- we will seek to achieve 2% inflation sustainably, stably by creaing cycle in which rising wages push up households’ real income
- covid pandemic continues to exert downward pressure on economy
- recent rise in commodity prices is hurting economy by reducing real income
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Japan’s inflation situation is completely different from that of US, Europe
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uncertainty
regarding economic outlook heightening sharply -
in times like now
when uncertainty is high, central banks must conduct monetary policy
by examining various data broadly without any preset idea -
there is risk
Ukraine crisis could hurt global economy further, trigger sharp
volatility in commodity prices -
there is risk
markets, including forex, could destabilise as advanced economies
accelerate withdrawal of stimulus -
must be mindful that
sharp fx volatility would hurt economy -
BOJ will carefully
watch impact of market volatility on economy, prices -
short-term inflation
expectations among households, firms, market participants are clearly
heightening
more to come