BOJ's Kuroda: CPI likely to be slightly negative for time being

Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda be speaking, to a branch managers meeting.

Reuters with headlines from the text from his speech:

• Japan's economy expected to expand moderately as a trend
• Japan consumer inflation likely to be slightly negative or around zero % for time being
• Japan's financial system maintaining stability
• BOJ will maintain QQE with negative rates for as long as needed to achieve 2% inflation in stable manner
• BOJ will take additional easing steps via quantity, quality of asset buying and interest rates if needed

Nothing much new there from Governor Kuroda