利上げ判断「局面近い」　２４年１２月の日銀会合議事要旨

　日銀は２９日、２４年１２月１８、１９日に開いた金融政策決定会合の議事要旨を公表した。政策委員の一人が「利上げを判断する局面は近いが、現段階では米経済の不確実性が一巡するのを今しばらく注視する辛抱強さも必要だ」と言及するなど、利上げの是非を巡り突っ込んだ議論が交わされた。
　日銀は次の１月会合で、政策金利の０．５％程度への引き上げを決めた。
　昨年１２月会合では、ある委員が「来年の春季労使交渉でも相応に高い賃上げが実現する可能性が高まってきた」と２０２５年春闘への手応えを表明。「過度に金融緩和が継続するとの期待を高めるべきではなく、適宜のタイミングで緩和の度合いを調整していくことが必要」との見解もあった。（2025/01/29-10:27）

Many Bank of Japan policymakers last month agreed to wait to see economic policies by U.S. President Donald Trump before raising interest rates, minutes of their December meeting released on Wednesday showed.
   Many members of the central bank's Policy Board pointed to "high uncertainties surrounding the policy conduct of the incoming U.S. administration," the minutes of the Dec. 18-19 meeting showed.
   The minutes quoted one board member as saying that the BOJ "would likely decide to raise the policy interest rate in the near future, but, at this point, it was necessary for the bank to be patient and monitor the uncertainties over the U.S. economy until those uncertainties subsided."
   At a meeting last week, the board voted to raise the policy rate by 0.25 percentage point to around 0.5 pct. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda told a press conference after the meeting that financial markets have been stable since Trump took office on Jan. 20.
   The minutes of the December meeting showed that one board member expressed optimism about an outlook for wage growth. The member said fairly high wage increases would be more likely achieved in this year's "shunto" spring labor talks, according to the minutes.