The chief of the Bank of Japan on Wednesday defended its coverage of constant with financial easing because the yen briefly fell to a seven-and-a-half month low towards the U.S. dollar in New York the identical day.
“Although the headline rate of inflation is above 3 percent, which is well above the 2 percent inflation target, we think underlying inflation is still a bit lower than 2 percent,” Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Japanese central financial institution, mentioned at an occasion in Sintra, Portugal.
“That’s why we are keeping our policy unchanged at the moment,” he mentioned throughout a session of the ECB Forum on Central Banking, additionally attended by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey.
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