Business fixed investment is likely to continue increasing, supported by firms' heightened growth expectations and increases in Olympic Games-related investment, as well as in labor-saving investment to address labor shortages. Private consumption is also expected to follow a moderate increasing trend as the employment and income situation continues to improve.
In these acts it is recognised that only by protecting the currency can balanced and sustainable economic growth be achieved. It is believed in the Bank, and indeed in most countries of the world, that the potential growth rate of an economy and the optimum creation of employment opportunities can only be attained under stable financial conditions.