Instant View: Analysts react to BOJ decision to keep rates steady

The Bank of Japan has decided to keep its policy interest rates unchanged, with analysts offering immediate reactions to the decision. Holding rates steady leaves the yen's interest rate differential with major economies such as the United States intact, which keeps pressure on the currency and sustains the carry trade in which investors borrow in low-yielding yen to fund higher-yielding assets abroad. Japanese government bond yields and the yen are the most directly exposed, since any shift in expectations for future BOJ tightening would reprice the front end of the curve and feed through to USD/JPY. Traders will watch the next Tokyo core CPI release and the BOJ's updated guidance on the pace of policy normalization, as signs of persistent inflation could revive bets on a rate hike and tighten the differential.

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