The Reserve Bank of New Zealand said: The Committee is confident that maintaining the Official Cash Rate (OCR) at a restricted level for a sustained period will return consumer price inflation to the target range of 1-3% this year.

After the New Zealand Reserve Bank’s interest rate decision was announced, the New Zealand dollar/US dollar NZD/USD fluctuated more than 10 points in the short term to 0.6060.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: We are not deliberately pursuing a 2% inflation target.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: The 2% inflation target is appropriate and is the global standard.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Determining ETF holdings is a difficult task.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: We are observing how the market absorbs the March policy shift, after which we hope to start reducing the scale of purchases of Japanese government bonds.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: We hope that the Japanese government bond market will eventually return to a state where yields are determined by market forces.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: If foreign exchange fluctuations not only lead to higher import prices but also threaten to push up trend inflation above expectations, we may need to change monetary policy.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: We will not change monetary policy simply to respond to foreign exchange fluctuations.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: If core inflation rises, the degree of easing will be reduced.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: The side effects of negative interest rates may be greater in Japan than in Europe.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: It is appropriate to make a policy shift in March because the results of the spring wage negotiations were better than expected, and we see the risk that if we wait too long, we will have to raise interest rates quickly afterwards.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Interbank lending rates are not expected to rise significantly.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: If government bond yields soar, the total amount of bond purchases will be increased.

Boeing (BA.N): Will provide relevant information and discuss next steps with the Senate subcommittee.

OpenAI: The API currently provides a greatly improved GPT-4 Turbo model, which is being gradually rolled out in ChatGPT.

Chevron: A processing unit at its Richmond refinery in California malfunctioned, equipment caught fire, and the company is working to repair it.

Prince, co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Funds: Expectations of a Fed rate cut are now "off track."

Sources: Pemex crude oil production fell by 20,000 barrels per day after the fire on Saturday; the offshore platform AKAL-B has stopped operations.

API refined oil inventories in the United States for the week ending April 5 were 120,000 barrels, expected to be -1.182 million barrels, and the previous value was -2.548 million barrels.