Asian Stock Market: Japan’s Surprise Trade Surplus; PBoC holds rate unchanged

Governor Kazuo Ueda is expected to maintain a dovish policy stance in order to keep inflation steady at approximately 2%.

In China, the People's Bank of China announced on Thursday that it maintained benchmark lending rates unchanged. The one-year and five-year Loan Prime Rates were kept unchanged at 3.55% and 4.20%, respectively. On Thursday, China's Ambassador Xie Feng criticized the US's consideration of foreign investment and AI chip restrictions. He added that China would retaliate if the US imposed more curbs on its chip sector in Beijing.

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