 Sveriges Riksbank launched quantitative easing in February 2015, announcing government bond purchases of nearly 1.2 billion USD.The annualised inflation rate in January 2015 was minus 0.3 percent, and the bank implied that Sweden's economy could slide into deflation.In early October 2010, the Bank of Japan announced that it would examine the purchase of ¥5 trillion (US$60 billion) in assets.