Japan has started the new year the same way it ended the old one: buying #jgb. As of Sept 2022, the #boj owns almost half of the outstanding Japanese goverment debt. It continues with its quest to control the yield curve, since due to the inflation spike, it’s pushing rates up and consequently the cost of servicing the debt. The implications on the currency, the Yen, are huge and the potential domino effect on the other currencies is big as well, since it’s all interconnected. And it’s a policy that will be difficult to unwind, since the market will front run the #boj if and when they decide to reverse course.
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