Japan Ratio decision on Wednesday

On March 19, 2025By Karl

Jakarta (DPA-AFX) -Japona Bank will complete the monetary policy meeting on Wednesday and then begin an intensive day for Asia-Pacific economic activity and announce its decision on interest rates. Boj’s comparison loan rate is expected to change by 0.50 percent.

Japan will also see data for imports, export and trade balance in February, as well as core machine orders and industrial production figures in January. Machine orders will decrease by 0.1 percent per month and 1.2 percent per month after falling 6.9 percent per year and 4.3 percent per year is expected to add.

Imports are expected to add 0.1 percent per year after 16.7 percent climbing in January. Exports are called 12.1 percent higher than 7.2 percent in the previous month. The surplus of trade was fixed as 722.8 billion yen after 2,758.8 billion yen deficit a month ago.

New Zealand will see the 4th quarter numbers for its current account, and estimates suggest 6.66 billion NZ deficit from 10.58 billion NZ deficiency in the last three months.

The Central Bank in Indonesia will complete its monetary policy and then announce its decision on interest rates. The Central Bank is expected to change the criterion lending rate (5.75 percent), deposit facility ratio (5.00 percent) and lending facility (6.50 percent).