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It's the end of an era as Japan quit negative interest rates.

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It's Tuesday, March 19th. I'm Kate Bullevent

for the Wall Street Journal. And here is the AM edition of What's News, the top headlines and

business stories moving your world today.

We begin in Japan this morning where the country's Central Bank has ended a historic run of negative interest rates, raising rates for the first time in 17 years.

It marks a milestone for one of the world's biggest economies amid a strengthening job market

and a new era of stable inflation.

Joining me now is the Journal's Tokyo Bureau Chief Peter Landers.

Peter, a significant move from the BOJ today.

Tell us, what did they say? They say Japan is on the road

to stable inflation of about 2%. We've already been above that level for about two

years now and in light of that the Bank of Japan says it's time to end

these extraordinary monetary policy steps that has taken over the last 14 years

or so they've ended negative interest rates that was one of the most prominent

steps they've also ended an attempt to target the yield on 10-year Japanese

government bonds that's something that central banks don't normally do the bank

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