BoJ’s Funo: Important to continue powerful monetary easing

Reuters reporting comments from the BoJ board member Yukitoshi Funo, as he speaks at a meeting with business leaders in Miyazaki.

Key Headlines:

Still some distance to reaching 2% inflation target

Important to continue powerful monetary easing

CPI likely to continue uptrend on output gap improvement, rise in inflation expectations

Core CPI likely to reach around 2% in FY 2019