{"id":186438,"date":"2026-01-23T06:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/japans-central-bank-holds-rates-steady-after-bond-sell-off-and-ahead-of-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:46:24","slug":"japans-central-bank-holds-rates-steady-after-bond-sell-off-and-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/japans-central-bank-holds-rates-steady-after-bond-sell-off-and-ahead-of-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s central bank holds rates steady after bond sell-off and ahead of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Japan announced this Friday that its policy interest rate remains unchanged at 0.75%. The decision comes after a huge sell-off in Japanese bonds this week, triggered by Prime Minister Takaichi&#8217;s call for snap elections, and unfunded tax cuts that fuelled inflation fears. <\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2026\/01\/23\/japans-central-bank-holds-rates-steady-after-bond-sell-off-and-ahead-of-elections\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Japan announced this Friday that its policy interest rate remains unchanged at 0.75%. The decision comes after a huge sell-off in Japanese bonds this week, triggered by Prime Minister Takaichi&#8217;s call for snap elections, and unfunded tax cuts that fuelled inflation fears. Read more at Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":186439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}