{"id":457984,"date":"2026-05-24T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/457984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:28:39","slug":"faster-economic-growth-supports-bojs-case-for-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/457984\/","title":{"rendered":"Faster economic growth supports BOJ\u2019s case for hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan\u2019s economy grew much faster than expected at the start of the year, supporting the case for further Bank of Japan interest-rate hikes, though the outlook remains highly uncertain due to the Middle East conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Real gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 2.1% on an annualized basis in the first quarter, according to a Cabinet Office report on Tuesday. The reading exceeded economists\u2019 forecast for a 1.7% expansion and marked an acceleration from a downwardly revised growth pace of 0.8% in the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Stronger-than-expected private consumption and trade helped power the acceleration in growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s economy grew much faster than expected at the start of the year, supporting the case for further&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20252,114,9513,184,3153,85,932,87,46,14989,47],"class_list":["post-457984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economic-indicators","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-il","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-japanese-economy","tag-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457984","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=457984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}