As noted previously, times have moved on from the Jan meeting.
- The 'summary' from the meeting was out on January 31, way ahead of these minutes
- Since then we have already had another meeting, just last week. The summary from this meeting will be published March 26.
Anyway …. headline points:
- Most BoJ members said it would take time to reach inflation target
- Appropriate to continue easing persistently
Same old same old
Oh … here we go:
- One member said undesirable to create situation where markets perceive excessively that there will be no BOJ policy change for time being