- Asia's stocks rose as strong technology earnings boosted Wall Street. The yen fell as the BoJ maintained its benchmark rate unchanged and announced a policy review.
- The BoJ maintained its ultra-loose monetary policy settings in the first meeting under BoJ's New Governor Ueda, keeping its 0.5% ceiling for 10-yr government bond yields and leaving its short-term policy rate at minus 0.1%.
- Following the greatest day for the S&P 500 since the first week of the year and a 2.8% increase for the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100, stocks in Japan, Australia, South Korea, and China all climbed.
- The gains, though, began to fade in early Asian trade. Futures in the United States fell significantly after Amazon warned of a slowing in revenue growth for its cloud computing sector.
