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Urgent: Bank of Japan further eases monetary policy

Xinhua, January 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Bank of Japan on Friday following a policy board meeting decided to further ease its monetary policy.

The bank also said it will introduce a negative interest rate and has delayed the timing of its inflation target of 2 percent. Endit