{"id":233274,"date":"2025-10-23T02:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233274\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:03:07","slug":"bok-stands-pat-on-policy-as-housing-market-rally-stirs-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/233274\/","title":{"rendered":"BOK Stands Pat on Policy as Housing Market Rally Stirs Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/1206Z:KS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Bank of Korea<\/a> held its benchmark interest rate steady to avoid spurring a housing market rally that threatens to cause financial imbalances by driving mortgage debt levels higher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The central bank held its seven-day repurchase rate at 2.5% on Thursday, a decision that aligned with the expectations of 23 of 25 economists surveyed by Bloomberg, with the other two predicting a quarter-point cut. The move extends a pause that began in July after four reductions since October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bank of Korea held its benchmark interest rate steady to avoid spurring a housing market rally that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[65236,45,49,48,7897,5427,2445,548,893,9316,16425,100,2100,96,18838],"class_list":{"0":"post-233274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-barclays-plc","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-currency","13":"tag-debt","14":"tag-economic-growth","15":"tag-economics","16":"tag-government","17":"tag-interest-rates","18":"tag-july-sarl-caen","19":"tag-markets","20":"tag-policy","21":"tag-property-market","22":"tag-seoul"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}