AUG 30. Chaotic month of August ended.. what’d happen if Japan hike the rate in September?

Chun09
6 min readAug 31, 2024

The chaotic month of August market ended like this. On July 31st, in US local time, the Bank of Japan raised their rates.

Then, stock markets around the world plummeted, and with the US unemployment rate reaching 4.3% in July, money flowed out of the markets like an ebb tide.

Stories of despair, such as the Black Monday of 1987 and the financial crisis of 2008, filled the first week of August. Then, on August 7th, the Bank of Japan’s Deputy chairman made a declaration to the world.

“We’re not going to raise the rate easily” After Japan’s declaration, the global market stabilized as if it were a lie.

It really wonder how much money people around the world have borrowed from Japan… But since Japan itself has been acting as an overdraft account for people around the world…

The problem is that on August 23rd, last Friday, Bank of Japan Governor Ueda appeared on the Japanese parliament and made an important statement. “ Depending on the situation going forward, there will be no choice but to raise interest rates…” And this week…

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