Japan to hike interest rates for first time in six years
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The Bank of Japan will raise interest rates next week for the first time in nearly six years in a sign that the Japanese economy is gaining momentum, news reports say.
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Japan's key interest rate is kept on hold at 0.5% for a fourth consecutive month amid a slip in consumer prices.
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Japan&#39;s economy outperformed both the  United States and the euro zone in January-March for the second  straight quarter, reinforcing expectations the Bank of Japan  will raise rates in August.
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Australia's central bank has raised interest rates by 25 basis points to a six-year high of 6.0 percent in an effort to head off inflationary pressures in a booming economy.
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China raised its benchmark interest rates on Thursday for the sixth time this year, the latest in a series of tightening steps to contain inflation and prevent the world's fourth-largest economy from overheating.
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BEIJING (Dow Jones)--China raised interest rates Thursday for the first time in more than nine years, escalating its battle to tame feverish economic growth but immediately
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Japanâs central bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 0.5 percent, saying it wanted to wait until after this monthâs elections to reassess the economy. The decision matched expectations of analysts who predicted that the Bank of Japan did not want to risk rattling markets or the public by tightening credit before the July 29 parliamentary polls. The bankâs governing board voted 8-to-1 on the decision, which came at the end of a two-day policy meeting, increasing the chance that the central bank will raise rates in August. The bank lasst raised its benchmark interest rate in February, when it lifted it from 0.25 percent.
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Federal Reserve officials are set to  jack up interest rates on Tuesday for a fifth time this year,  confident the U.S. expansion is self-supporting and no longer  in need of rock-bottom borrowing costs for a boost.
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The yen surrendered earlier gains against the dollar after China, Japan&#39;s second-largest export market, raised interest rates for the first time in nine years.
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Japanese stocks fell from multi-year highs on Tuesday amid concern over a potential BOJ interest rate increase, while the euro hit six-week highs against the dollar on expectations the Federal Reserve may cut rates.
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Financial markets held their breath Wednesday as the Bank of Japan prepared to announce whether it will lift its super-low interest rates, with analysts putting the chances of a hike at about 50-50.
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Japan&#39;s Cabinet authorized a national spending plan for next fiscal year to cut the budget deficit by 6 percent to curb expansion of the world&#39;s largest public debt.
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Confidence at major Japanese companies remained the same as three months ago, a closely watched Bank of Japan survey showed Monday, possibly reinforcing expectations that the central bank will raise interest rates in August.
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The Bank of Japan is seen holding off  raising interest rates on Wednesday, hours after the U.S.  central bank slashed rates by a hefty half-percentage point to  try to shield the U.S. economy from a housing slump and market  turmoil.
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Bank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui reaffirmed the central bank's commitment to raising interest rates in a gradual manner.
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New Zealand&#39;s central bank has again moved to ease inflation pressures, raising its key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 6.25 percent -- a level last seen in March 2001.
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The Bank of Japan opts to keep the country's benchmark interest rate on hold at 0.5%.