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Hong Kong Monetary Authority: The Federal Reserve’s decision to keep interest rates unchanged is in line with market expectations.

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Japan's 20-year government bond yield rose 3.0 basis points to 3.110%.

Japan's 40-year government bond yield rose 3.0 basis points to 3.740%.

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1. Reuters survey: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, and 60% of economists surveyed expect it to raise interest rates to 1% before the end of June. 2. ANZ: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, but will send a hawkish signal. The central bank is expected to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 1% in April. 3. DBS Bank: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and may be more inclined to wait for the results of wage negotiations this spring; compared with April, there is a more suitable window for raising interest rates in June and July. 4. Capital Economics: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged. Rising wages support the Bank of Japan in raising interest rates, but the conflict in Iran has become the biggest variable, which may cause the Bank of Japan to postpone the interest rate hike for longer. 5. Daiwa Securities: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged. Whether it raises interest rates in April is likely to be an important turning point in determining the market's confidence in its commitment to tightening policy. 6. Allianz Group: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged, and Kazuo Ueda may maintain the possibility of raising interest rates in April, while adding additional conditions depending on the data to hedge against any external shocks. 7. Mitsubishi UFJ: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and may raise interest rates in April. Geopolitical risks have become the new normal, and stabilizing the yen exchange rate is becoming increasingly important for Japan. 8. Sumitomo Mitsui: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and will pay attention to how rising crude oil prices push up petrochemical products and how the cost pressure of other crude oil-based commodities is transmitted to the country. 9. Moody's Analysis: The Bank of Japan is expected to keep interest rates unchanged and may raise interest rates to 1% around the middle of the year. If the yen weakens further, it could prompt the central bank to bring forward an interest rate hike 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 ease a new round of imported inflation pressure.

Hong Kong stocks opened, with the Hang Seng Index opening down 1.82% and the Hang Seng Technology Index opening down 2.10%; lithium batteries, power equipment, and petroleum stocks were among the top gainers, while chips and OpenClaw concepts pulled back; Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) fell more than 4% after the results.

The one-month non-deliverable forward (NDF) of the US dollar against the Indian rupee was at 93.46, indicating that the Indian rupee may fall below the 93 mark in the spot market.

Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara: We hope that the Bank of Japan will work closely with the government to formulate appropriate monetary policies to achieve the 2% inflation target in a stable and sustainable manner, and that inflation should not be caused by cost-push factors, but should be driven by wage growth.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara: The government will not comment on how the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy, including the April resolution, will affect prices.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara: After the outbreak of the Iran war, the government’s position of handing over monetary policy decision-making to the Bank of Japan has not changed.

Japanese Finance Minister Katayama Satsuki: We are paying close attention to the financial market with extremely high vigilance.

Japanese Finance Minister Katayama Satsuki: Ready to take necessary measures to deal with market fluctuations.

The dollar was last up 1.2% against the Korean won at 1,501.25.

Japanese Finance Minister Katayama Satsuki: The currency market trend is partly driven by speculators.