The Bank of Japan has raised short-term interest rates to the highest level in 30 years, as rising prices transform an economy that spent decades mired in deflation.
In a statement on Friday, the BoJ said it was raising its policy rate by 0.25 percentage points to “around 0.75 per cent”.
The rate increase was the fourth since governor Kazuo Ueda took the helm of the central bank in 2023. It continues the monetary policy “normalisation” process he launched last year and followed weeks of heavy hints to markets that a rate rise was coming.
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