指標次第で追加利上げ　国債購入減を模索―日銀総裁

　【ワシントン時事】訪米中の植田和男日銀総裁は１９日、ワシントン市内のピーターソン国際経済研究所で講演し、経済指標次第で追加利上げを検討する方針を明らかにした。月間６兆円程度としている国債購入額の削減にも意欲を示し、金融政策のさらなる正常化に含みを持たせた。
　植田氏は「今後入手される指標次第で、短期金利を変更する」と明言。「基調的な物価上昇率が上がれば、利上げの可能性は非常に高い」と述べた。ただ、日銀は過去３０年、持続的な利上げを行ったことがないため、経済動向の推測は難しいとして、追加利上げは「チャレンジングだ」と認めた。（2024/04/20-10:12）

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said Friday that the Japanese central bank will consider additional interest rate hikes depending on economic data.
   "Depending on incoming data and information, we may change the shorter policy rate," Ueda said in a speech at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think tank in Washington.
   "If underlying inflation continues to go up, we would be very likely raising interest rates," he said.
   But he added that additional rate hikes were likely to be "a challenge," given the difficulty in predicting economic movements as the BOJ has not raised rates on a sustained basis for the past 30 years.
   Ueda also showed a willingness to reduce the BOJ's purchases of Japanese government bonds, currently at about 6 trillion yen per month, as part of efforts to normalize its monetary policy.