BOJ Sticks With Easing Plan as Sales-Tax Bump Looms in Japan

The Bank of Japan maintained record easing, keeping ammunition as an April sales-tax bump threatens to trigger the deepest one-quarter contraction since the March 2011 earthquake. The BOJ kept a pledge to expand the monetary base at a pace of 60 trillion to 70 trillion yen ($677 billion) per yea…

View original post here: 
BOJ Sticks With Easing Plan as Sales-Tax Bump Looms in Japan