{"id":441163,"date":"2026-10-30T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-all-eyes-on-japan-for-the-boj-441163\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T05:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T22:00:18","slug":"economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-all-eyes-on-japan-for-the-boj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/economic-and-event-calendar-in-asia-all-eyes-on-japan-for-the-boj-441163\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic and event calendar in Asia &#8211; all eyes on Japan for the BoJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Japan dominates Asia session with Tokyo CPI and BoJ decision ahead<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Japan takes centre stage in Asia on Friday, with a heavy run of domestic data landing ahead of the Bank of Japan\u2019s policy decision. The central bank is widely expected to keep its policy rate at 1.25%. A move in December remains a live possibility, so markets will focus on the tone of the policy statement and the quarterly Outlook Report rather than the decision itself.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Tokyo consumer prices for October arrive first, at 23:30 GMT (preview coming). Core inflation, which excludes fresh food, is expected at 2.6%, a touch below September\u2019s 2.7% and still above the BoJ\u2019s 2% target. Headline Tokyo CPI ran at 2.7% in September, while the measure excluding both food and energy stood at 3%. Because the Tokyo figures are an early read on nationwide price trends, they will feed directly into expectations for December.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">September labour data lands at the same time. The jobless rate is forecast to hold at 2.5% and the jobs-to-applicants ratio at 1.18. At 23:50 GMT, preliminary industrial production is expected to rebound 1.3% month on month after a 2.4% drop in August. Retail sales are seen rising 3.3% from a year earlier, up from 2.7% previously.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The BoJ decision (preview coming) has no fixed release time, but the Outlook Report is scheduled for 03:00 GMT. Any signal on the timing of the next hike is likely to be the main driver for the yen and Japanese government bonds.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/boj-preview-daiwa-sees-hold-but-2-inflation-call-could-open-door-to-december-hike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">BOJ preview: Daiwa sees hold, but 2% inflation call could open door to December hike<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/boj-preview-mufg-sees-hold-but-a-2-inflation-call-with-two-dissenters-the-key-yen-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">BoJ preview: MUFG sees hold but a 2% inflation call, with two dissenters the key yen risk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/boj-to-hold-at-1-25-but-ueda-signals-further-hikes-toward-neutral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">BOJ to hold at 1.25%, but Ueda signals further hikes toward neutral<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/boj-seen-lifting-rates-to-1-50-in-december-as-69-of-economists-expect-a-q4-hike\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">BOJ seen lifting rates to 1.50% in December as 69% of economists expect a Q4 hike<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/investinglive.com\/central-banks\/boj-reportedly-may-upgrade-inflation-forecast-hold-rates-steady-at-next-week-s-meeting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow\">BOJ reportedly may upgrade inflation forecast, hold rates steady at next week&#8217;s meeting<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The ANZ-Roy Morgan consumer confidence gauge from New Zealand, last at 97.6, comes out at 21:00 GMT. Australia also has data on the slate. At 00:30 GMT, third-quarter producer prices are expected to rise 1.0% quarter on quarter, slower than the 1.3% gain in the second quarter. Private sector credit is forecast to grow 0.5% in September.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"> Japanese housing starts and construction orders close out the session at 05:00 GMT.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bank of Japan Governor Ueda press confrence will follow all this at 0630 GMT\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>                            This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan dominates Asia session with Tokyo CPI and BoJ decision ahead Japan takes centre stage in Asia on Friday, with a heavy run of domestic data landing ahead of the Bank of&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-441163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441163","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=441163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}