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The depreciation of the yen is under pressure, and the Bank of Japan proposed a “reduction in the scale of debt purchases” to boost the yen
This is the first time since December last year that the scale of bond purchases has been cut; analysts believe that reducing the scale is an important way to deal with the fall in yen.
BOJ Trims Bond Buying in Regular Operation Amid Pressure on Yen
The Bank of Japan offered to purchase a smaller amount of government bonds in a regular operation on Monday than it did on April 24 as it seeks to reduce its presence in the country’s debt market.
Japan's Kato: Japan on Track to Normalize Monetary Policy
A former chief cabinet secretary, Katsunobu Kato, said on Monday that Japan is seeing conditions fall in place for the central bank to normalize monetary policy
BlackRock: The weak yen kept foreign investors away from Japanese stocks, and the increase in the Nikkei index in US dollars shrunk to 3%
The Nikkei 225 Index has risen 14% this year, outperforming its global peers. But for dollar-based investors, after the yen fell to a 34-year low against the US dollar, this increase shrank to just over 3%.
When interest rates began to plummet, Japanese insurance companies were dumbfounded
Author ｜ Editor Cao Tian｜Xiaopi Nissan Mutual Life Insurance (Nissan Mutual Life Insurance) went bankrupt in 1997. This was the first Japanese insurance company to go bankrupt after the war. Japan's long-standing stability in the insurance industry was finally shattered, and the myth that “insurance companies won't go bankrupt” was shattered. At the time, Jesper Koll, an economist at J.P. Morgan Chase Japan, pointed out that in the next five years, one-third of Japanese insurance companies are expected to disappear within five years. The word Jesper became a supposable word. Over the next few years, Nippon Insurance Company
Gauge for Current Conditions in Japan Slips in April: Economy Watchers Survey
The measure for household trends fell to 46.6 points from 49.4 in March due mostly to a drop in food and beverage to 47.8 from 53.1, the data showed.
The two major asset management giants support the Bank of Japan's hawk, saying that interest rate hikes will exceed market expectations
The Zhitong Finance App learned that Ales Koutny, head of international interest rates at Vanguard, said that the market has underestimated the degree of hawkish policy the Bank of Japan needs to adopt this year to boost the struggling yen. His opinion is consistent with Pacific Investment Management (Pacific Investment Management), which is also a bond giant. Both believe that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates by 75 basis points this year. Koutny believes that the Bank of Japan's benchmark interest rate will reach 0.75% at the end of the year from the current range of 0% to 0.1%, and will raise interest rates in June as soon as possible
Japan's Current Account Surplus Balloons 44% in March
Japan reported a current account surplus of 3.399 trillion yen in March, up 44% from 2.36 trillion yen in the prior-year period, preliminary data released by the Ministry of Finance on Friday showed.
Vanguard Joins Pimco in Seeing More BOJ Rate Hikes Than Market
Vanguard Group Inc.’s Ales Koutny says the market is underestimating just how hawkish the Bank of Japan will need to be this year to boost the beleaguered yen.
Japan's Households Cut Outlays Again With Inflation Still Sticky
Japan’s households cut spending again as sticky inflation weighed on sentiment, clouding the prospects for the economic virtuous cycle sought by the central bank.
Japan's Suzuki: Appropriate Actions Will Be Taken on FX If Needed
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday that he will closely watch the foreign exchange (FX) move, adding that he will take necessary measures regarding FX if required.
Send a signal to “save the yen”! Bank of Japan announced interest rate hikes and reduction in the scale of debt purchases
The market is betting that the yen will break 160 more
BOJ's Board Turned Hawkish in April, Steady Rate Hikes Now in View
BANK of Japan board members turned overwhelmingly hawkish at their April policy meeting, with some seeing the chance of interest rates rising faster than anticipated, a summary of opinions at the meeting showed on Thursday (May 9).
Will the “rotten” Japanese yen drag the entire Asian currency out of the water?
The disorderly decline in the yen is still likely to have a gravitational effect on Asian currencies.
Bank of Japan Meeting Minutes: The depreciation of the yen may lead to faster rate hikes
Bank of Japan members are closely monitoring the impact of a weak yen on inflation, and believe that interest rates may be raised faster as a result.
Japan's Real Wages in March Decreases 2.5%
Japan's real wages in March decreased 2.5% from the same month a year earlier, resuming the declining trend over the past two years, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare on Thursday.
BOJ's Policy Board Becoming More Concerned About Effects of Weaker Yen -- Update
The Bank of Japan's board is becoming more concerned about the inflation outlook as a sharply weaker yen threatens to drive up import prices, a summary of its latest meeting showed.
Japan's Reserve Assets Decline in April
Japan's official reserve assets totaled $1.279 trillion as of the end of April, down $12 billion from $1.291 trillion a month ago, the Ministry of Finance reported Thursday.
BoJ's Summary of Opinions: Easy Monetary Conditions Are Expected to Continue
One member said if trend inflation accelerates, BOJ will adjust degree of monetary easing but accommodative financial environment likely to continue for time being.
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