BoJ’s Kuroda: Will consider further easing if momentum towards 2% target wanes

BoJ Governor Kuroda is still speaking at the press conference, with the key comments found below.

Will consider further easing if momentum towards 2% target wanes

No plans to raise rates simply because the economy is doing well.

Not saying won't change YCC even if conditions for achieving 2% inflation are in place.

The current yield curve is most effective, doesn't see the need to change it.

Bitcoin isn't acting as normal means of payment.

Bitcoin is now an instrument of speculation.

Doesn't think that Bitcoin has any influence on monetary policy.

Not for me to decide if Bitcoin is a bubble.

Bitcoin prices are abnormally high if you graph it.

Upward pressure on wages steadily rising.