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The recent hawkish comments from the ECB suggest that the bank is increasingly concerned about the inflation outlook,

There's clearly no case for the Bank to be cutting rates from current levels given the strength of the housing market.

Investors are starting to think the central bank may raise interest rates sooner than expected. That has pushed shares of real-estate companies lower as they usually borrow heavily to expand their property holdings.

We will continue to tighten land sales and bank lending to strictly control the number of new projects and curb the excessive growth in fixed-asset investment to prevent a return to overheated investment. The pressure on resources and environment is mounting, the economy is still hampered by a number of shortages and there're still some unstable factors and uncertainties in development.

The European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan are in the beginning stages of tightening, whereas the Fed is basically done.

No one's ever seen anything like this. There can be various patterns to the way the Bank of Japan will exit the policy.

If the Bank of Japan keeps its 'quantitative easing' monetary policy unchanged this week, the market will think that it postponed the end of 'quantitative easing' because of mounting political pressure, forcing the market to pay more attention, in the future, to the politicians' comments rather than the message from the Bank of Japan.

As the government is growing increasingly receptive to the idea of a policy shift, the central bank could very well change policy as early as March 9.

The trend of Japan's economic recovery won't stop. The central bank seems to become increasingly confident that it can change policy around the middle of 2006.