Bank of Japan Raises Rates to 31-Year High; Dissent Clouds Outlook

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BoJ hikes 0.25% to highest since 1995; two dissents cloud outlook. Yen and JGB yields fall. BoE holds but signals future hikes. S&P 500 jumps as tech leads market rally.

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The Bank of Japan raised rates 0.25 percentage point to the highest level since 1995, yet two dissenters and a pullback in the yen and JGB yields show how tentative normalization remains. At the same time CNBC broadcast Palantir CEO Alex Karp urging 'reasonable guidelines' for AI, while reports surfaced of researchers using Anthropic tools to breach OpenAI, tying macro moves to a renewed focus on tech governance. That combination matters because it blends a risk-on market mood, which can buoy software names, with a regulatory conversation that could reshape who gets enterprise AI contracts and how quickly.