The Bank of Japan will certainly leave interest rates unchanged at its upcoming meeting. With crude oil prices on track to reach their earlier peaks by the time of that meeting, we expect the Bank to adopt a more cautious tone on activity than when at the previous meeting. But upside risks to inflation are heightening and we’re sticking to our non-consensus forecast for the policy rate of 2.0% by end-2027.
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