News list for " rate hikes"
The Bank of Japan may end its current wait-and-see mode and resume raising interest rates by the end of the year if the economic impact of U.S. tariffs proves to be minor, a member said, according to a summary of the Bank of Japan's July monetary policy meeting opinion released on Friday. Another member pointed out that the Bank of Japan's policy rate is currently 0.5 percent, which is below the level considered neutral for the economy, so the central bank must continue to raise interest rates. ...
Prices of most Japanese government bonds fell in early trading on the prospect of further interest rate rises by the Bank of Japan. Household spending rose 2.7 per cent in real terms in December from a year earlier, beating consensus expectations, according to economic data released this morning. The figures are likely to add to the case for another rate rise by the Bank of Japan. Naoki Tamura, a hawkish member of the central bank's policy committee, on Thursday called for a possible quicker pac...
Japanese economic data support the Bank of Japan's expectation of another interest rate hike, but tonight's U.S. data may pose upside risks to the United States and Japan.
Bank of America has revised its forecast for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates in January, or this week, from March. The bank now expects the BoJ to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.50 per cent at its policy meeting this Friday. A rate rise in March had previously been BofA's preferred forecast because it gave the BoJ more time to assess the policies of the new US administration. However, strong price data and the possibility that the BoJ board will need to revise its inflati...
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The yen weakened against most other G10 and Asian currencies in morning trading on the prospect of a slow rate hike by the Bank of Japan in 2025. Market participants have pushed back expectations for the next rate hike by the Bank of Japan until March, Lloyd Chan, an analyst at MUFG, said in a research note. The senior FX analyst said they had expected the Bank of Japan to raise rates in December 2024 or January 2025. Meanwhile, the long-term US national...
Reserve Bank of Australia President Bullock: No interest rate hike was explicitly considered at the meeting.
Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan, said that despite two interest rate hikes, Japan's interest rate may still be lower than the neutral rate.
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JPMorgan Asset Management said the Bank of Japan would avoid raising interest rates again in the short term, and further tightening could depend on the direction of the US economy. "The BoJ actually has a path to move again, but that's a path for the Fed to cut rates and try to stabilise the US economy," said Seamus Mac Gorain, head of global rates at the firm. "Of course, if the US goes into a recession, the road is blocked." JPMorgan Asset Management is betting that the spread between Japanese...
