日銀、マイナス金利維持　２４年度物価、２．４％に下方修正―決定会合

　日銀は２３日、前日に続き金融政策決定会合を開き、現行の大規模金融緩和策の一環として導入しているマイナス金利の維持を決めた。最新の景気予測「経済・物価情勢の展望（展望リポート）」も公表し、２０２４年度の消費者物価指数（生鮮食品を除く）の上昇率見通しを前年度比２．８％から２．４％に下方修正した。
　日銀は、２％の物価上昇目標の持続的・安定的な達成を目指し、賃金と物価がともに上昇する「好循環」の実現に向け、長短金利操作を柱とする金融緩和を継続する。
　日銀は、国内の景気判断について「緩やかに回復している」との判断を据え置いた。物価の先行きについては、２４年度の見通しを最近の原油価格の下落を踏まえ引き下げる一方、２５年度は１．８％（昨年１０月時点は１．７％）に引き上げた。（2024/01/23-13:28）

The Bank of Japan on Tuesday decided to maintain its negative interest rate policy while cutting its fiscal 2024 inflation forecast.
   The nine members of the BOJ Policy Board, at a two-day meeting from Monday, voted unanimously to keep intact the bank's yield curve control scheme for guiding short- to long-term interest rates, operated under its ultraeasy monetary policy.
   They agreed to hold the bank's short-term policy rate steady at minus 0.1 pct and continue guiding 10-year Japanese government bond yields to around zero pct while allowing the long-term yields to rise above 1 pct to some extent.
   In its latest quarterly Outlook for Economic Activity and Prices report, adopted at the Policy Board meeting, the BOJ cut its growth projection for Japan's core consumer price index for fiscal 2024 to 2.4 pct from 2.8 pct in the previous report released in October last year.
   The growth projection for the core CPI, which excludes often volatile fresh food prices, was raised to 1.8 pct from 1.7 pct for fiscal 2025. The inflation forecast for fiscal 2023 was kept unchanged at 2.8 pct.