15:04:36
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: The loose environment will continue for some time.
15:03:37
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Some of the factors driving up service price inflation are obviously temporary, but apart from these factors, we can still say that it is gradually rising.
15:02:44
Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi: The Bank of Japan is expected to work closely with the government to adopt appropriate monetary policies to achieve price targets sustainably and stably while accompanying wage growth.
15:01:26
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Achieving the inflation target does not necessarily require the output gap to turn positive first and then rise.
15:01:15
At midday closing, the main domestic futures contracts rose more or less, with the container shipping index (European line) rising by more than 10%, soda ash rising by nearly 6%, Shanghai nickel rising by more than 2%, and Shanghai tin and lithium carbonate rising by nearly 2%. In terms of decline, rubber and urea fell by more than 1%, and pigs, No. 20 rubber (NR), palm oil, and manganese silicon fell by nearly 1%.
15:00:04
The UK government balance of payments deficit in December was 12.863 billion pounds, compared with the previous value of 12.453 billion pounds.
14:59:31
Morgan Stanley: Supported by semiconductor and export data, it is recommended to short the U.S. dollar against the Korean won.
14:59:25
Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Masaru: Monetary policy falls under the jurisdiction of the Bank of Japan, and the government does not comment on its views on decision-making.
14:58:35
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: But there is still a high degree of uncertainty about the prevalence of wage increases, although not as high as last year.
14:58:19
USD/JPY fell back below 147, down 0.76% on the day.
14:57:50
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Many companies have determined wage issues in advance.
14:57:15
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: The number of companies that decided to raise wages during wage negotiations this spring was higher than the same period last year.
14:56:47
The U.S. dollar index DXY fell below 103, down 0.33% on the day.
14:56:22
The U.S. dollar continues to fall against the Japanese yen USD/JPY, falling more than 40 points in the short term and now trading at 147.15.
14:55:42
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: We cannot deny that negative interest rate policy has side effects.
14:55:33
The Russian government supports extending capital controls beyond April.
14:55:23
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Will decide whether to adopt negative interest rate measures based on inflation.
14:55:07
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: After exiting the negative interest rate policy, further interest rate increases will definitely be foreseen.
14:54:19
Russian Government: Supports extension of mandatory sales of foreign exchange earnings for large exporters.
14:52:00
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: It is impossible to quantify how far we are from exiting the negative interest rate policy.