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Urgent: Japan leaves monetary policy unchanged

Xinhua, November 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Japanese central bank on Tuesday decided to maintain its current monetary policies, while further prolong the timeframe for achieving its inflation goal.

The schedule of achieving its inflation target of 2 percent will be extended to sometime in or after fiscal 2018 (April 1,2018-March 31, 2019) from sometime in fiscal 2017, the Bank of Japan decided at its two-day policy meeting. Endit