#PreMarket Primer: Thursday, October 31: BOJ Bullish On Inflation
October 31, 2013 at 06:53 AM EDT
The Bank of Japan released its semiannual outlook report on Thursday in which the bank predicted that core consumer prices will rise by 1.9 percent in the fiscal year starting April 2015. The estimate was unchanged from July’s expectations, but many private-sector economists are disputing the forecast. Many believe that the