GBPJPY

24 de nov.

Bank of Japan (BoJ) that issues statements and decides on the interest rates of the country. Its Governor is currently Kazuo Ueda. The BoJ has been applying very low interest rates for many years and even introduced a negative interest rate in January 2016, in an attempt lift consumer prices, which have been sliding for most of the past 20 years. Falling consumer prices is a concern for the country since they hurt corporate revenues and tend to stop spendings. The Japanese Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a key indicator closely monitored by traders of all JPY-related currency crosses.UK Government and its Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak who took office in October 2022, a day after becoming leader of the Conservative Party.