Bank of Japan monetary policy statement is due June 20 2019.
As always, the BOJ does not schedule a firm time for the announcement.
As a guide, 0230 to 0330GMT is an expected window
Recent times for the announcement are:
2017
- 31 January 2017 1156AM Tokyo time, 0256GMT (maintains policy steady)
- 16 March 2017 1154am Tokyo time, 0254GMT (maintains policy steady)
- 27 April 2017 1214pm Tokyo time, 0314GMT (maintains policy steady, upgraded economic outlook, pushes out inflation forecasts)
- 16 June 2017 1154am, 0254GMT (maintains policy steady, maintains economic outlook ... boosts its outlook for private consumption)
- 20 July 2017 1210 Tokyo time 0310GMT (maintains policy steady, upgraded economic outlook, pushes out inflation forecasts)
- 21 September 2017 0315GMT (maintains policy steady, upgraded assessment on public investment)
- 31 October 2017 0304 GMT (maintains policy steady ... noob on the Board Kataoka wants more easing!)
- 21 December 2017 0245 GMT (maintains policy steady ... noob on the Board Kataoka wants more easing ... again. BOJ kept economic assessment unchanged)
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2018
- 23 January 2018 0314 GMT - monetary policy held steady
- 9 March 2018 0245GMT
- 27 April 2018 0302GMT - policy held steady, removes phrase on expected timing for hitting price goal
- 15 June 2018 0241GMT - policy held steady, downgrades its assessment of CPI
- 31 July 2018 0403GMT - policy tweaks
- 19 September 0247GMT - - monetary policy held steady
- 31 October (sry but I do not have a note of the time the statement was released for this one)
- 20 December 2018 0252 GMT - no changes to policy
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2019
- 23 January 2019 0259GMT - no change to policy but revisions to forecasts
- 15 March 2019 0239GMT - no change to policy but cuts assessment on exports, output
- 25 April 0327GMT - outlooks for GDP and CPI lowered
I'll get some previews up, here is one from earlier:
