BoJ’s Ueda: Will adjust degree of monetary support if inflation moves as expected

“If underlying inflation moves as we project, we will adjust the degree of monetary support,” Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Tuesday.

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If our economic, price projections and assessment of risks change, that will also be reason to change interest rate levels.

Our policy goal is price stability, so won’t guide policy to fund fiscal spending.

Our basic stance is to allow markets to set long-term interest rates.

We have maintained current pace of bond buying to avoid big discontiniuity in bond buying operations.

We are ready to conduct nimble market operations if there are sharp rises in long-term rates.

Not thinking about introducing central bank digital currency.