{"id":196930,"date":"2025-12-21T19:53:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196930\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T19:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T19:53:29","slug":"boj-raises-rates-gov-ueda-avoids-future-policy-hints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/196930\/","title":{"rendered":"BOJ raises rates; Gov. Ueda avoids future policy hints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/bank-of-japan\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japan central bank chief says neutral rate will likely remain &#8220;in a wide range&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20251218 Ueda BOJ\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">After the BOJ raised its policy rate, Gov. Kazuo Ueda\u00a0avoided giving hints about the timing of the next\u00a0increase, emphasizing that monetary policy will be adjusted &#8220;depending on developments in the economy and prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>JADA NAGUMO<\/p>\n<p>December 19, 2025 12:21 JST<\/p>\n<p>Updated on December 19, 2025 19:29 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Bank of Japan on Friday decided to raise its policy rate to its highest level in three decades, encouraged by positive momentum in wage growth and the weakening yen. Gov. Kazuo Ueda, however, kept his explanation\u00a0vague, saying the pace of rate hikes depends on economic as well as price developments, and that the neutral rate will likely remain in a wide range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan Japan central bank chief says neutral rate will likely remain &#8220;in a wide range&#8221; After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[111704,20252,114,184,2596,16794,32701,85,46,4555,20393,6204,69412],"class_list":["post-196930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-avoids","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-future","tag-gov","tag-hints","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-policy","tag-raises","tag-rates","tag-ueda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}