boj minutes, 2019-10-31
With respect to overseas financial markets, although U.S. stock prices had declined temporarily, mainly against the background of economic indicators that had turned out to be weaker than market expectations, they rose thereafter -- with the improvement in risk sentiment that mainly reflected expectations for progress in U.S.-China trade negotiations -- and more recently were at almost the same levels as at the time of the previous meeting.
Sentiment: neutral
Topic: mp_economic_activity