Bank of Japan Policy Board decisions, Governor Ueda speeches, yield curve control adjustments and JGB market operations, all tracked in real time. Sub-second wire alerts integrated with USD/JPY, EUR/JPY and Nikkei moves via the live forex news feed.
Illustrative data · Live updates continuously in the Pro terminal
Japan holds the world's largest pool of overseas investment capital. When the BoJ shifts policy, carry trades unwind, sovereign bond yields jump globally, and JPY-funded leverage gets repriced. A 5bp surprise can move USD/JPY 150 pips in minutes.
BoJ Policy Board sets the short-term policy rate every six weeks. After two decades of negative/zero rates, every move is a regime-changing event. TNT delivers the announcement in milliseconds with full statement text.
The BoJ's YCC framework caps the 10-year JGB yield. Each tweak (or removal) repricesglobal bond markets. TNT alerts the moment the BoJ buys to defend the cap, or signals widening tolerance.
Every Ueda speech and Diet appearance is wire-covered. Hawkish/dovish tone tagged in real time so JPY traders position before the full transcript circulates.
Fixed-rate purchase operations, JGB auctions, repo operations: all tagged. When the BoJ buys, JPY weakens. When operations are suspended, JPY rallies.
The Bank of Japan affects more than just JPY. Its operations touch JGBs, the Nikkei, global carry trades and emerging-market FX. TNT covers the full ecosystem.
Every BoJ Policy Board meeting and Quarterly Outlook Report. The Outlook Reports (Jan, Apr, Jul, Oct) typically contain more substantive policy signals than the standalone meetings.
| Date (2026) | Bank | Current Rate | Consensus | Impact | Tone (Last) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17 | BoJ Policy Board | 0.50% | Hold | HIGH | Hawkish |
| Jul 31 | BoJ + Outlook Report | 0.50% | +10bp possible | HIGH | Hawkish |
| Sep 18 | BoJ Policy Board | — | TBD | HIGH | Neutral |
| Oct 30 | BoJ + Outlook Report | — | TBD | HIGH | Neutral |
Meeting dates verified against official central bank publications. Consensus reflects pre-meeting wire surveys. Live timeline and pricing updates inside the Pro terminal.
Access the dedicated central banks tracker from the TNT Pro sidebar. The panel shows all upcoming meeting dates with countdown timers, current benchmark rates and the last known tone for each bank — hawkish, dovish or neutral.
On meeting day, the news feed automatically elevates all central bank wires to the top. Rate decisions hit the feed the instant they are released — before TV, before most platforms. The squawk box reads out the decision audibly so you don't need to watch the screen.
TNT aggregates the full policy statement text alongside analyst commentary and speech transcripts as they drop. Forward guidance, dot plot changes, inflation outlook revisions — all tagged and searchable within seconds of release.
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| Rate decision calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live speech tracking | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Hawkish/Dovish tone tagging | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Live squawk audio alerts | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Integrated news feed | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 12+ banks covered | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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The BoJ Policy Board meets 8 times per year, typically every 6-7 weeks. Four of those meetings are paired with a Quarterly Outlook Report (January, April, July, October), which contains updated growth and inflation forecasts and is usually the more market-moving session.
Japan exports vast amounts of capital abroad. Japanese pension funds, life insurers and retail investors hold trillions in foreign bonds and equities, funded in JPY. When the BoJ shifts policy, those carry positions get repriced and USD/JPY can move 100-200 pips on a single statement word change.
YCC is the BoJ's policy of capping the 10-year JGB yield to keep long-term borrowing costs anchored. The BoJ buys unlimited JGBs whenever the yield approaches the cap. Each adjustment to the cap (or its removal) is one of the highest-impact rate events globally.
Sub-second from wire publication. The BoJ statement is released in Japanese first; TNT publishes both the original JP and the English translation simultaneously. Key phrases (rate, YCC, asset purchases, forward guidance) are auto-tagged for instant filtering.
Yes. The Japan Ministry of Finance, not the BoJ, conducts FX intervention. TNT separately tracks MoF and Vice-Finance-Minister statements about JPY weakness, intervention warnings, and the actual intervention itself (which is announced retrospectively each month).
Founder, Trading News Terminal · Forex educator since 2013
Trading the FX market since 2013, with a particular focus on JPY pairs and BoJ policy reading. Built Trading News Terminal after watching prop-firm desks get the BoJ statement 30-60 seconds before independent traders during the YCC-removal episodes.
Writes the daily Luís Barata Forex Trader blog (PT/BR) and the TNT analysis feed. Editorial focus: Fed dot plots, ECB forward guidance, BoJ yield-curve nuance, and how to fade the wire-first overreaction.
BoJ-related dates, rates and statements on this page come directly from official sources. We don't aggregate from third-party Japan-watching newsletters or Telegram channels — every data point is cross-checked against the publishing institution.
Tone tagging (hawkish/dovish/neutral) on BoJ statements is reviewed editorially each cycle by comparing statement wording to the previous meeting. We document the change in language explicitly — a key tell for direction.
Page last reviewed: 27 May 2026 · Next scheduled review: after the 17 June meeting · Corrections: [email protected]
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