The minutes of this meeting will be out in around 7.5 weeks (March 24), the summary is a good guide to what was discusses.
The Bank remained on hold at this meeting, with a policy review due in March.
Headlines via Reuters
- BoJ must strengthen easing stance as risk of deflation has heightened further
- One board member said the Bank should consider anew the cumulative effects of easy policy on matters such as financial intermediation, market functioning.
- must consider how to balance the effects and side-effects of its policy