Bank of Japan Governor Ueda spoke:
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Bank of Japan Governor Ueda spoke at length today. If you want a one-word summary mine would be ‘dovish’. Or at least 'not hawkish' (the two word summary).
Ueda spoke broadly, and in a mainly balanced fashion, but for every indication he gave that the Bank will be raising rates he provided caveats as to why they would not be doing so any time soon. In essence his message is that if BoJ forecasts for the economy and prices come to fruition then the Bank will adjust monetary policy (raise rates), but that he is not expecting this quickly.
For the equity folks, Ueda gave no indication of any hurry to sell off the bank’s ETFs holdings.
I’ve grouped the posts on Ueda all together in the points above, if you want to go through them.
The yen fell during the session against the USD and other major FX.
From Australia we had February CPI data. The monthly CPI data is not the official guide to inflation in Australia, that’ll have to wait for the quarterly reading due in late April. Having got that out of the way, February CPI came in at 2.4%, under the median estimate of 2.5%, under January’s 2.5%, and under the mid-point of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s 2 – 3% target band. A good report. The RBA meet next week, March 31 and April 1. What to expect? I suspect:
1. Given how hawkish they sounded in their February meeting, and 2. that today’s inflation data was not an official quarterly read,a rate cut would be a surprise.
Trump spoke in an interview, sending out mixed messages on what’s to come on April 2 re tariffs:
Not many exceptions to April 2 tariffsAll we are doing is reciprocalI'll likely be more lenient than reciprocalOn balance these seem to indicate a dialling back of the threat, but less cryptic would be helpful to folks trying to make business decisions surrounding tariff and economic policy. Still, he’s the Prez so I guess he knows what he is doing.
The USD was not a lot changed on the session (yen excepted).
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