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Potential candidate for Japan PM helps BOJ persevering with to hike charges

Bloomberg is gated, in brief from the interview with Katsunobu Kato, a potential candidate for the country’s next prime minister:

  • Japan should continue to aim for a world where interest rates and prices keep moving
  • “It’s clear that we have to head in this direction” where prices and rates aren’t stagnant

  • caution is still needed for the immediate future given the market turmoil this month
  • years of unmoving prices and rates had been damaging …
    “That lack of movement created structural distortions. We’re finally getting to a stage where rates can keep moving.”

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This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.

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