TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan will limit the scope of its newly introduced negative interest rate to a small portion of financial institutions' current-account deposits -- between 10 trillion yen and 30 trillion yen ($84.5 billion to $253 billion), The Nikkei has learned.
The amount will represent no more than a tenth or so of the total. The BOJ reckons that even a narrow application of its new monetary easing tool will spur banks to lend and invest.
