Nikkei 225 Opens Flat as Traders Wait on Bank of Japan Rate Decision

As seen on the 24/7 Wall St. homepage on September 7, 2026.

MARKET OPEN

Nikkei 225 🇯🇵 JPX

Sep 6, 8:00pm ET

+0.07%

416.42

Tokyo opens a fraction higher, and the flat tape is the story: traders are refusing to commit ahead of a Bank of Japan meeting that Governor Ueda has hinted could deliver a rate hike. A move would ripple straight through the yen carry trade funding US equities.

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The Nikkei 225 edged up 0.07% at the open on September 7, a restraint that is deliberate.

Traders are holding back ahead of a Bank of Japan meeting that Governor Ueda has signaled will bring a rate hike, which would reprice the yen carry trade, a funding mechanism that flows directly into US equities.

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If the yen strengthens on a hawkish Bank of Japan decision, the cost of unwinding yen-funded positions rises across global markets.

Until the Bank of Japan speaks, that narrow drift is likely to continue.

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Sep 6, 9:30pm ET

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