Take Five: Of Fed-aches and other central banks

The Bank of Japan, sources say, will discuss further easing; it may even decide to act to head off further economic pain, a third of analysts in a Reuters poll predict. Upcoming trade and inflation data should show Japan's export slump deepening and inflation at two-year lows. But its dilemma is the same as elsewhere: How to inject stimulus without hurting banks any further, and how to make it effective. Switzerland, with a -0.75% interest rate, is quiet so far on the prospect of emulating ECB..