“The Bank of Japan (8301) rejected a call for an immediate start to open-ended asset purchases in Governor Masaaki Shirakawa’s final meeting before a new leadership takes over at the central bank.
The board voted eight-to-one against the proposal by member Sayuri Shirai, the BOJ said in a statement in Tokyo today after a two-day meeting. Policy makers left an asset-purchase fund unchanged at 76 trillion yen ($810 billion) as forecast by all 23 analysts in a Bloomberg News survey….”
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