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28.12 - 17:31
Japan Bends to Global Forces Pushing Up Interest Rates
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TOKYO— The Bank of Japan ’s governor, nearing the end of a decade in office, gave markets one more surprise in the form of an interest-rate increase that he said wasn’t really an increase.
It capped an event-filled year for developed-world central bankers in which the Federal Reserve lifted its benchmark rate above 4% and the European Central Bank moved up to 2%. The inflationary forces that pushed the U.S. into rapid clampdown mode proved so powerful that even Japan’s central bank, which long stuck to near-zero rates, felt it had to budge—in part to protect the value of the yen, analysts said.
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