{"id":433969,"date":"2026-07-17T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/bank-of-japan-to-keep-interest-rates-unchanged-at-july-meeting-kyodo-433969\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T15:57:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T08:57:32","slug":"bank-of-japan-to-keep-interest-rates-unchanged-at-july-meeting-kyodo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/bank-of-japan-to-keep-interest-rates-unchanged-at-july-meeting-kyodo-433969\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan to keep interest rates unchanged at July meeting &#8211; Kyodo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>BoJ is set to keep interest rates unchanged at the July meeting<\/li>\n<li>BoJ is likely to raise growth forecast for this year<\/li>\n<li>BoJ sees little need for back-to-back rate hikes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">The Bank of Japan is expected to leave its policy interest rate unchanged at its July monetary policy meeting, according to a Kyodo News report citing people familiar with the matter. While policymakers are increasingly confident in the economy&#8217;s resilience, they are also expected to maintain a cautious approach to further policy tightening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">According to the report, the BoJ is likely to revise higher its economic growth forecast for the current fiscal year, reflecting stronger-than-expected domestic activity and a resilient labor market. <\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Policymakers see little need for back-to-back increases in borrowing costs after the central bank&#8217;s recent rate increase, preferring to wait and see how recent developments impact the\u00a0economy before considering additional adjustments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">While Core CPI has remained above the central bank&#8217;s 2% target for an extended period and wage growth has improved, policymakers continue to emphasize the importance of achieving sustainable, demand-driven inflation rather than reacting to temporary price pressures.\u00a0\ufeffTraders are expecting the next rate hike to come in December.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Giuseppe Dellamotta at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoJ is set to keep interest rates unchanged at the July meeting BoJ is likely to raise growth forecast for this year BoJ sees little need for back-to-back rate hikes The Bank&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}