This week, three central banks made interest rate meetings.
The Bank of Japan voted to continue with a -0.1% rate applied to the "policy rate balances." The bank will maintain "Yield Curve Control," which means it will buy a sufficient amount of 10-year bonds to keep long-term rates at 0%. This is how it described the current state of the Japanese economy (emphasis added):
Japan's economy has been on a moderate expanding trend, with a virtuous cycle from income to spending operating, although exports, production, and business sentiment have shown some weakness, mainly affected by