{"id":62900,"date":"2024-07-31T15:59:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=62900"},"modified":"2024-07-31T15:59:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:59:37","slug":"japan-hikes-interest-rates-for-only-second-time-in-17-years-to-shore-up-yen-and-tame-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2024\/07\/31\/japan-hikes-interest-rates-for-only-second-time-in-17-years-to-shore-up-yen-and-tame-inflation\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan hikes interest rates for only second time in 17 years to shore up yen and tame inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62901\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Japan-interest-rate-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Japan-interest-rate-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Japan-interest-rate-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Japan-interest-rate.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/japan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Japan<\/a>\u2019s central bank has hiked interest rates for only the second time in almost 17 years as the country grapples with\u00a0<a title=\"Japan in recession falls behind Germany to become world\u2019s fourth-largest economy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/asia\/southeast-asia\/japan-in-recession-economy-uk-b2496749.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">a weakening yen\u00a0<\/a>and rising inflation.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/japan-hikes-interest-rates-for-only-second-time-in-17-years-to-shore-up-yen-and-tame-inflation\/ar-BB1qWzY7?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=e2ae3bbcbfcf4404a4aa32756f647c4a&amp;ei=89\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Japan\u2019s central bank has hiked interest rates for only the second time in almost 17 years as the country grapples with\u00a0a weakening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cost-of-living-crisis"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Japan-interest-rate.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62902,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62900\/revisions\/62902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}