Key Points
MSCIs broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.31% higher and on course for 2.5% gain in the week, its best weekly performance since January...
Asian shares rose to a near four-month high on Friday as resilient U.S. economic data stoked expectations that the Federal Reserve is near the end of its rate-hike campaign, with investor focus switching to the Bank of Japans policy meeting..
The BOJ rounds up a central bank heavy week, with broad expectations that the central bank will stick with its ultra-loose monetary policy even as inflation ticks higher...
Economic conditions are telling the BoJ that its ultra-easy policy has passed its used-by date, yet given what Ueda has been saying, the consensus view is that the BoJ will stand pat, said Rodrigo Catril, senior FX strategist at National Australia Bank...
Chinas stock markets got a boost this week after the central bank cut the borrowing cost of its medium-term policy loans for the first time in 10 months to aid a shaky economic recovery, with investors hoping more stimulus is on the horizon...
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