BoJ April minutes: Three members wanted to move in April; the rest caught up by June
The minutes are retrospectively hawkish given that the BoJ has since moved to 1.00%, validating the three dissenters who argued for exactly that level in April. The more significant market signal is the board's near-unanimous recognition that underlying inflation was approaching
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