The Bank of Japan is set to review the side-effects of its massive monetary easing during the policy session on January 17 and 18, and may make additional policy adjustments to correct the distortions in the yield curve, the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported Thursday, without citing sources.
In the December monetary policy session, the nine-member board unexpectedly decided to expand the range of the 10-year JGB yield fluctuations to 0.5 percentage points from 0.25 percentage points.
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