{"id":339208,"date":"2026-03-14T16:19:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/339208\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:19:26","slug":"boj-seen-waiting-till-april-for-rate-hike-amid-iran-war-turbulence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/339208\/","title":{"rendered":"BOJ seen waiting till April for rate hike amid Iran war turbulence"},"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\">High oil prices may hit Japan&#8217;s economy, spur inflation as bank tries to normalize policy<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260313N BOJ\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Bank of Japan\u00a0is committed to raising interest rates, but the Middle East conflict and rising energy prices have made such a move more complicated.\u00a0(Photo by Miki Kamiyama)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Bank of Japan is widely expected to hold its policy rate at 0.75% during next week&#8217;s monetary policy meeting, but rising energy prices and market volatility stemming from the Iran war have the central bank on guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan High oil prices may hit Japan&#8217;s economy, spur inflation as bank tries to normalize policy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[56784,20252,114,184,23602,85,87,46,38857,24752,122690,166246,2201],"class_list":["post-339208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-april","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-hike","tag-il","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-rate","tag-seen","tag-turbulence","tag-waiting","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339208","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=339208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}