EUR/USD
1.14798
0.244%
Gold
4864.43
0.956%
Oil
97.520
-1.357%
USD/JPY
159.630
-0.141%
GBP/USD
1.32880
0.238%
GBP/JPY
212.121
0.158%
Real-time News
1. Reuters poll: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, with 60% of economists surveyed expecting a rate hike to 1% by the end of June. 2. ANZ: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged but will release hawkish signals, expecting a 25 basis point rate hike to 1% in April. 3. DBS: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, possibly preferring to wait for the outcome of wage negotiations this spring; June-July presents a more suitable window for a rate hike than April. 4. Capital Economics: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, with rising wages supporting a rate hike, but the Iranian conflict is the biggest variable, potentially delaying the rate hike further. 5. Daiwa Securities: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged; whether it raises rates in April could be a crucial turning point in determining market confidence in its commitment to tightening policies. 6. Allianz Group: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged; Kazuo Ueda may maintain the possibility of an April rate hike, while adding data-dependent conditions to hedge against any external shocks. 7. Mitsubishi UFJ: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, but may raise them in April. Geopolitical risks have become the new normal, and stabilizing the yens exchange rate is becoming increasingly important for Japan. 8. Sumitomo Mitsui: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and will focus on how rising oil prices will push up costs for petrochemical products and other oil-based commodities, and how these costs will be transmitted domestically. 9. Moodys Analytics: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and may raise them to 1% around mid-year. Further weakening of the yen could prompt the central bank to raise rates later this year. 10. Natixis: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and maintain a hawkish stance to avoid disrupting spring wage negotiations, while maintaining a tightening bias to alleviate new imported inflationary pressures. On Thursday, March 19, the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index opened down 474.86 points, or 1.82%, at 25,550.56; the Hang Seng Tech Index opened down 107.31 points, or 2.1%, at 5,000.99; the H-share Index opened down 143.29 points, or 1.62%, at 8,692.21; and the Red Chip Index opened down 26.31 points, or 0.61%, at 4,275.69.The Peoples Bank of China (PBOC) announced today that it conducted 13 billion yuan of 7-day reverse repurchase operations, with both the bid and winning bids amounting to 13 billion yuan. The operating rate was 1.40%, unchanged from the previous rate.Hong Kong stocks opened lower, with the Hang Seng Index down 1.82% and the Hang Seng Tech Index down 2.10%. Lithium battery, power equipment, and oil stocks led the gains, while chip and OpenClaw concept stocks retreated. Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) fell more than 4% after its earnings release.The main Shanghai silver futures contract plunged 6.00% intraday, currently trading at 18,852.00 yuan/kg.
