The following are brief expectations for the BoJ October 30-31 policy statementas compiled from the related research reports of 10 major banks. Overall,the consensus expects this BoJ meeting to be a none-event with limited impact on JPY. Credit Agricole Research:Our economists expect the BoJ to keep its policy parameters – quantitative easing and yield-curve control – unchanged. While there some risk that the BoJ could formally drop its monetary aggregate target from its policy statement, our economists continue to think that this is more likely in December than this week. If the BoJ were to drop its annual monetary ... (full story)