Policy stance remains appropriate: BoJ minutes

Japanese policymakers remain keen to raise rates in spite of a slowdown in the world's second-largest economy, minutes of the March Monetary Policy Council meeting reveal.

The minutes showed that the Bank of Japan's nine-member council unanimously agreed that the country's economy was likely to continue to expand moderately and that "their basic thinking on the monetary policy stance for the future remained unchanged." The central bank has repeatedly said that it wants to hike rates, which at 0

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