日銀、引き締め開始準備を　インフレ圧力増す―ＩＭＦ

　【ワシントン時事】国際通貨基金（ＩＭＦ）のチーフエコノミスト、ピエール・オリビエ・グランシャ氏は２５日の記者会見で、日本のインフレ圧力が増しているとの見方を示し、日銀に対して「金融引き締め開始を準備する必要がある」と訴えた。
　グランシャ氏は、今年の春闘で賃上げが高水準となったことを踏まえ、物価上昇率が「（日銀の２％の）目標を上回って推移し続ける可能性がある」と述べた。（2023/07/26-05:36）

The Bank of Japan should start making preparations to tighten its monetary policy as inflationary pressure is growing in the country, International Monetary Fund chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said Tuesday.
   The Japanese monetary policy can remain accommodative for now, but the BOJ "needs to prepare itself for the need to maybe start tightening," Gourinchas told a press conference.
   Given the high levels of wage increases agreed during this year's "shunto" spring labor-management talks in Japan, he said that Japanese inflation may remain above the BOJ's 2 pct target.
   He recommended the BOJ to "be a bit more flexible and maybe move away from the yield curve control it has" as part of its ultraloose monetary policy.
   Under the yield curve control system, the bank guides 10-year government bond yields to around zero pct while keeping its short-term policy rate at minus 0.1 pct.