Abe’s aide Honda: Possible the BOJ acts this week

Latest comments from Japanese PM Abe’s aide Etsuro Honda crossed the wires via Bloomberg:

Wants the Bank of Japan to ease in H1

Possible the BOJ acts this week

BOJ may wait while it continues to assess the impact of its negative rates policy

Stock market and the yen are moving favourably recently
Better for BOJ to act now if it wants to be pre-emptive