Bank of Japan (BOJ) has reduced its economic
evaluation as worldwide slowdown hurts exports increasing Japan's vulnerability
to Eurozone's debt crisis. Masaaki Shirakawa BOJ's Governor announced that
central bank has decided to leave repo rate unchanged at 0.1% as well as to
stick to asset purchase fund of ВҐ20 trillion ($260 bn). Fixed-rate lending package
remained also untouched to stimulate commercial banks to increase lending.