{"id":356041,"date":"2026-03-31T01:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356041\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:10:11","slug":"bank-of-japan-rushes-to-pave-way-for-rate-hikes-amid-rising-oil-prices-weak-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/356041\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan rushes to pave way for rate hikes amid rising oil prices, weak yen"},"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\">April increase seen as likely after March meeting opinions, studies<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260330N 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 market anticipates a 70% chance that the Bank of Japan will raise the policy rate in April.\u00a0(Photo by Shintaro Ino)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Bank of Japan is laying the groundwork for rate hikes, releasing studies and policy meeting opinions signaling the need for an increase given rising oil prices and the inflation risk caused by the weak yen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan April increase seen as likely after March meeting opinions, studies The market anticipates a 70%&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1643,138,219,100302,1759,111,139,69,4156,74737,12937,19257,801,188219,14047,27037,42907],"class_list":["post-356041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bank","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-hikes","tag-japan","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oil","tag-pave","tag-prices","tag-rate","tag-rising","tag-rushes","tag-way","tag-weak","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356041","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=356041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}