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Finally, BOJ Raises Rates After 17 years

11 mins·08:45, 20 Mar 2024
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Finally, BOJ Raises Rates After 17 years

11 mins
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08:45, 20 Mar 2024
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Guest: William Pesek (Columnist), Nikkei Asia

The world's longest monetary policy experiment has ended with the Bank of Japan finally raising rates after 17 years. In what was a widely anticipated move, the overnight rate is now in a range of about zero to 0.1 percent, from minus 0.1 percent. William Pesek, columnist, Nikkei Asia tells us what this entails for the economy, markets and the yen.

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Presenter: Wong Shou Ning, Shazana Mokhtar

Producer: Wong Shou Ning

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