{"id":416943,"date":"2026-04-25T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T14:00:30","slug":"bank-of-japan-set-to-hold-rates-steady-with-iran-war-a-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416943\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan set to hold rates steady, with Iran war a factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Japan heads into its two-day policy meeting next week with the prospects for a rate increase dimming as economic uncertainties remain high due in part to the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that the BOJ will keep the policy rate steady,\u201d UBS Securities economists Go Kurihara and Masamichi Adachi wrote in a report on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously, we projected a rate hike in April, but as market expectations significantly faded, we have revised our projection.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bank of Japan heads into its two-day policy meeting next week with the prospects for a rate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2667,13601,72,113,6784,61,1095,60,13248],"class_list":{"0":"post-416943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-banks","9":"tag-boj","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-gdp","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-inflation","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-negative-interest-rates"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}