{"id":236493,"date":"2026-01-16T15:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236493\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T15:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:01:07","slug":"boj-set-to-hold-policy-rate-steady-at-january-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/236493\/","title":{"rendered":"BOJ set to hold policy rate steady at January meeting"},"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\">Growth upgrade likely as government measures bolster spending and capital investment<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260116 Kazuo Ueda\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda. Many within the BOJ see the strong U.S. economy and weak-yen-driven export gains as additional upside factors alongside the positive effects of Tokyo&#8217;s supplementary budget.\u00a0(Photo by Rie Ishii)<\/p>\n<p>Nikkei staff writers<\/p>\n<p>January 16, 2026 18:46 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Bank of Japan is expected to keep its policy rate at 0.75% at its two-day monetary policy meeting starting Thursday, following its rate increase in December 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan Growth upgrade likely as government measures bolster spending and capital investment Bank of Japan Gov.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30379,138,219,28162,68199,2374,111,139,69,7254,19257,1551,83116],"class_list":{"0":"post-236493","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-economy","11":"tag-hold","12":"tag-january","13":"tag-meeting","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-policy","18":"tag-rate","19":"tag-set","20":"tag-steady"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}