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Asia shares brace for BOJ meeting, US inflation test

From channelnewsasia.com

Asia stocks got off to a cautious start on Monday in a week where Japan's central bank might edge further away from its uber-easy policies, while a key reading on U.S. inflation is expected to underpin market pricing of interest rate cuts there. The Bank of Japan (BOJ) meets Tuesday amid much chatter that it is considering how and when to move away from negative interest rates. None of the analysts polled by Reuters expected a definitive move at this meeting, but policy makers might start laying the groundwork for an eventual shift. April was favoured by 17 of 28 economists as the kick-off for negative rates to be ... (full story)

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