IMF: BoJ likely to raise interest rates again this year
Nada Choueiri, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Asia-Pacific Department and its mission chief for Japan, said on Friday that the “Bank of Japan (BoJ) is likely to raise interest rates again this year.”
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See them reaching levels deemed neutral to the economy by end-2027.
See Japan's neutral interest rate in the band of 1-2%.
Japan's economy likely to expand 1.1% this year as continued recovery in wage growth underpins domestic demand.
Further BoJ rate hikes should be gradual, flexible to ensure pick-up in domestic demand.
Risks to Japan's economic growth are skewed to the downside as heightened uncertainty geopolitical fragmentation weigh on global growth.
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