{"id":396545,"date":"2026-04-25T05:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396545\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:11:25","slug":"bank-of-japan-set-to-hold-rates-steady-with-iran-war-a-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/396545\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan set to hold rates steady, with Iran war a factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Japan heads into its two-day policy meeting next week with the prospects for a rate increase dimming as economic uncertainties remain high due in part to the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect that the BOJ will keep the policy rate steady,\u201d UBS Securities economists Go Kurihara and Masamichi Adachi wrote in a report on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreviously, we projected a rate hike in April, but as market expectations significantly faded, we have revised our projection.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bank of Japan heads into its two-day policy meeting next week with the prospects for a rate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1396,30379,138,219,12410,1943,17559,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-396545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-banks","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-gdp","tag-inflation","tag-negative-interest-rates","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396545","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=396545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}