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2024-10-16 Wednesday
  • 15:14:36

    Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: We can make some judgments about the wages of small companies by observing other economic data and from hearings with companies.

  • 15:13:13

    Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Policy decisions can be made without all small business wage data.

  • 15:10:36

    Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: If you define deflation as a state of negative inflation, then we have come a long way from deflation.

  • 15:09:32

    Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Even if real wage growth is negative, policy changes are still possible if the outlook is optimistic.

  • 15:07:37

    Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Moderate growth in consumption after spring will continue due to rising wages.

  • 15:06:16

    Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: Even if negative interest rates end, the loose environment will continue to exist.

  • 15:05:08

    Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda: We will have more data at the April policy meeting compared to the March policy meeting.

  • 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.

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