Japan deflation struggle nears end
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Bank of Japan says prices will rise 0.1% in &#39;05, but it will likely keep ultra-low interest rates. TOKYO  - Japan&#39;s five-year bout with deflation is likely to end next year, the Bank of Japan said
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With just a month to go before Japan's top central banker steps down, the government has yet to name a successor to steer Asia's largest economy through a global slowdown and market turmoil.
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TOKYO : Japan&#39;s economic recovery is on track as structural reforms take root but soaring global oil prices pose a question mark, the central bank chief said on Monday.
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Japan's jobless rate improved in September as pressure on companies to cut costs eased, while other key data on consumer spending and prices were generally postive, giving further signs that the decade old problem of deflation may be easing, official data showed.
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The discount giant's Japanese unit continues to struggle.
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe&#39;s  support remains stuck at slightly above 30 percent, which many  analysts consider a crisis level, a survey showed on Monday,  just over a month before an upper house election.
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As talk of an American recession has helped batter global financial markets, economic policy makers in Japan have largely sat on the sidelines.
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Japanese interest rates stay on hold at 0.5% for the sixth time in a row, reflecting caution about future economic prospects.
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Japan will take action ``if necessary&#39;&#39; to stem the yen&#39;s gains against the dollar and is keeping a close watch on currency markets, Japan&#39;s Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said.
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The yen edged down against the dollar on  Wednesday as Japanese stock prices slid, but it remained within  striking distance of three-month highs on persistent concerns  about the health of the U.S. economy.
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The pound has finished up against the dollar, the euro and the Swiss franc but closed down against the yen.
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Japanese inflation falls for a seventh straight month making a rate rise by the end of the year less likely.
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Japan's central bank decided Wednesday to keep its monetary policy steady, in a sign that officials consider the nation's delicate recovery still on track.
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The Bank of Japan decided Friday to keep a benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent and the central bank's governor hinted that a rate hike may come later than July.
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Japan's economy is slowing due to weakness in housing investment and cautious corporate sentiment, the central bank chief said Thursday, hours after the bank left its benchmark interest rate at 0.5 percent.
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Japan's central bank kept its loose monetary policy unchanged Friday amid signs that keeping ample cash flowing in the financial system is necessary to keep the nation's economic recovery going.
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The Bank of Japan is seen holding off raising interest rates on Wednesday, hours after the U.S. central bank slashed rates by a hefty half-percentage point to try to shield the U.S. economy from a housing slump and market turmoil.