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Exclusive: BOJ to consider easing policy again in January - sources

Reuters: Business News

Tue, 8 Jan 2013

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will consider easing monetary policy again this month as it eyes doubling its inflation target, sources say, as weakness in the economy threatens to delay the country in getting out of deflation.

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