{"id":563943,"date":"2026-07-23T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563943\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T08:18:09","slug":"half-of-economists-still-see-boj-waiting-until-december-to-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563943\/","title":{"rendered":"Half of economists still see BOJ waiting until December to hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half of surveyed economists still expect the Bank of Japan\u00a0to wait until December to bump its benchmark interest rate higher, with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi\u2019s government seen as a key obstacle to further action, according to a Bloomberg survey.<\/p>\n<p>Some 50% of 52 economists selected December as the most likely timing for the next move after the BOJ raised the rate last month, according to the poll. Another 40% said it would come in October.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi is known to support monetary easing, and her government\u2019s influence will be a deterrence for the board to proceed along the path toward policy normalization, according to 59% of the respondents. An overwhelming majority\u00a0\u2014 82% \u2014 forecast the pace of rate hikes to be roughly once every six months, an increase from 71% in a June survey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half of surveyed economists still expect the Bank of Japan\u00a0to wait until December to bump its benchmark interest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13601,72,113,61,1095,60,8672,17878],"class_list":["post-563943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-ireland","tag-japanese-economy","tag-surveys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563943","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=563943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}