Will Bank of Japan go for broke in the face of looming recession?
Tokyo
ABENOMICS, the set of policies adopted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nearly three years ago as a weapon with which to fight Japan's long economic stagnation, will face a critical test on Friday this week when the Bank of Japan (BOJ) - a key player in implementing Abenomics - holds its latest Policy Board meeting.
Two rounds of aggressive monetary easing by the BOJ have failed to put the world's third largest economy back on a sustained recovery path - it is now on the brink of its second recession in the space of a year - and markets are keyed up waiting to see whether the central bank will "go for broke" by launching a third round of easing.
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