{"id":494136,"date":"2026-06-11T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494136\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:05:12","slug":"bank-of-japan-rate-hike-a-done-deal-given-inflation-and-weak-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/494136\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan rate hike a \u2018done deal\u2019 given inflation and weak yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its key interest rate to a 30-year high on Tuesday, with a wait-and-see approach giving way to a certain sense of urgency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d say a rate hike is pretty much a done deal,\u201d said Tsuyoshi Ueno, executive research fellow at NLI Research Institute.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inflation and a weak yen are pushing the central bank to take the rate to 1% from 0.75%, analysts said. It was last at the 1% level in 1995.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its key interest rate to a 30-year high on Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13601,128,72,113,61,60,8672,143693,33060,13248],"class_list":["post-494136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-bonds","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japanese-economy","tag-jgb","tag-kazuo-ueda","tag-negative-interest-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494136","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=494136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}