February 15 by the Bank of Japan monthly economic assessment that Japan's economic activity has slowed down, mainly due to external economic slowdown and the appreciation of the yen and other factors. The assessment of the tone is basically the same as in January, which together constitute the main reason for the bank this week's meeting on interest rates, expand the scale of quantitative easing and a clear long-term price stability target.
Prospect of Japan's economic outlook, the bank believes that the country's economic activity to maintain a slowdown trend in the short term, after the country's economy is expected to return to a moderate recovery levels, the pace of acceleration due to external economic recovery and reconstruction needs will gradually enhanced. In terms of price, Japan's core consumer price index (CPI) year-on-year volatility in the short term will be hovering around zero.
Economic Assessment report, the Bank of Japan said that the U.S. economy, recent signs of improvement, but the pace of recovery in the external economy is slowing down, and continue to simmer, and after emerging economies and commodity-exporting countries due to debt problems in Europe tightening of monetary policy effects are generated . The Japanese economy, with the gradual repair of production equipment in the disaster areas, fixed investment in Japanese companies to maintain moderate growth World pipe network reported that the world's steel pipe network to provide the world's steel pipe network editor , private consumption remained firm, housing investment to maintain the growth trend World Steel Pipe News , public investment, there have been bottoming out.