{"id":375345,"date":"2026-04-04T22:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375345\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T22:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T22:01:12","slug":"imf-urges-boj-to-keep-raising-rates-even-as-iran-war-poses-new-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/375345\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF urges BOJ to keep raising rates even as Iran war poses new risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund has urged the Bank of Japan to continue raising interest rates, even as the Middle East war posed &#8220;significant \u200bnew risks&#8221; to the country&#8217;s economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal comes amid market expectations the BOJ \u200cwill raise \u200cinterest rates as soon as April in the face of mounting inflationary \u200bpressure from the conflict-induced spike in oil prices, and higher import costs blamed on the weak yen.<\/p>\n<p>While growth is expected to moderate, due partly to the Iran war, gradual \u2060wage gains will underpin consumption, the IMF said in a statement issued from Washington on Friday \u2060after the conclusion of its policy consultation with Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The International Monetary Fund has urged the Bank of Japan to continue raising interest rates, even as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20252,114,9513,184,85,24570,87,46,47],"class_list":{"0":"post-375345","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-boj","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economic-indicators","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-imf","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-middle-east"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375345","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=375345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}