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<p>This is it – the moment the Abenomics-watchers have been waiting for.</p> <p>Wednesday night, the Bank of Japan will conclude its first monetary policy meeting with new BoJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda at the helm.</p> <p>So far, Japan's great "Abenomics" experiment – which seeks to employ bold policy tools to overcome more than a decade of deflation – has been mostly talk.</p>

SOROS: 'What Japan Is Doing Is Quite Dangerous' Sam RoApril 5, 2013 Legendary investor George Soros is in Hong Kong for the INET conference. He took a few minutes to speak with CNBC's Bernie Lo. "Reports say you made a billion dollar shorting the yen," Lo said. "What are you trying to do? Break the Bank of Japan?" "I think the Bank of Japan is eager to have people do that," joked Soros. On Thursday, the BoJ's Haruhiko Kuroda announced extremely aggressive monetary policy, an effort to stimulate Japan's stagnant economy. "It is a sensation because he broke some of...

Japanese stocks opened sharply lower Monday, with stocks hit across the board in reaction to weak U.S. jobs growth and Wall Street losses, as well as gains for the yen hitting exporters. The Nikkei Stock Average -2.03% shot down 2.1% to 8,259.51 in the early minutes, while the broader Topix lost 2.2% to 693.51, falling below the 700 level to hit lows reportedly not seen since the 1980s. With the Japanese yen up significantly against the U.S. dollar and euro, shares of globally exposed firms were among the leading decliners. Toshiba