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By Leika Kihara
TOKYO (Reuters) -Financial institution of Japan (BOJ) policymakers debated the feasibility of creating additional tweaks to its bond yield curve management with one member saying it should hold “numerous choices in thoughts” on the longer term course of financial coverage, minutes of its January assembly confirmed on Wednesday.
The nine-member board concluded that it was untimely to exit ultra-loose financial coverage now with inflation but to sustainably obtain the BOJ’s 2% goal, in response to the minutes of the Jan. 17-18 assembly.
However many board members mentioned distortions within the yield curve, triggered partly by the BOJ’s aggressive bond shopping for to defend its yield cap, have but to be fastened, the minutes confirmed, underlining their concern over the rising price of extended financial easing.
“In some unspecified time in the future sooner or later, the BOJ should conduct an examination of its coverage to find out the stability of its advantages and value. For now, nonetheless, it was applicable to keep up financial easing,” one member was quoted as saying.
“The BOJ should hold numerous choices in thoughts in guiding financial coverage. However with abroad economies slowing now, it is inappropriate to hurry in direction of an exit” from ultra-easy coverage, one other board member mentioned, in response to the minutes.
On the January assembly, the BOJ maintained ultra-low charges, together with a bond yield cap it was struggling to defend, defying market expectations it could part out its huge stimulus programme amid mounting inflationary strain.
