The Bank of Japan made a significant step toward shrinking its massive balance sheet last week, while market watchers were fixated on the biggest interest rate increase from the central bank in 18 ...
The BOJ’s first major quantitative tightening step took place in July 2024 when it decided to slash bond buying by ¥400 billion every quarter. The bank estimated the move would shrink its bond ...
As interest rates rise, the value of JGBs could plummet due to heightened inflation and duration risks. Click to read.
The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an academic favouring an end to ultra-low interest rates, will likely bring the central bank's thinking ...
The Bank of Japan’s government bond holdings surged ... “I think this is not necessarily what the balance sheet (statement of assets and liabilities) of a central bank should be,” Ueda ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition ... economist at Nomura Research Institute. BALANCE SHEET WOES The BOJ ended negative interest ...