Foreign investors continued to accumulate Japanese bonds for the third straight week ahead of a pivotal move by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to exit negative interest rates after 17 years. They pumped in a massive 2.16 trillion yen ($14.
FILE PHOTO: A woman is reflected on an electric board displaying Japan's long-term government bonds level and Japanese Yen rate against U.S. dollar and other currencies outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan January 16, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/FILE PHOTOForeign investors continued to accumulate Japanese bonds for the third straight week ahead of a pivotal move by the Bank of Japan to exit negative interest rates after 17 years. They pumped in a massive 2.
In a widely expected decision, the BOJ ditched its negative rate policy on Tuesday with its first interest rate hike in 17 years and ushered in a new era of monetary policy. Simultaneously, foreign investors offloaded approximately 674.22 billion yen in Japanese stocks last week — the largest weekly divestment since Oct. 6, 2023—according to exchange data.
Japanese investors withdrew a net 803.9 billion yen out of long-term foreign bonds last week after two weekly net purchases in a row. They, however, purchased about 305.1 billion yen of short-term debt instruments.
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