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Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... 0.1% since January 2016 and in September of the same year, the BOJ announced: "The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that 10-year JGB yields will remain more or less at the current level (around zero percent)". Safe-haven yen purchases ...

Chief economist update: Little market reaction from BOJ tweak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... effects of the consumption tax hike scheduled to take place in October 2019." "The bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that 10-year JGB yields will remain at around zero percent. While doing so, the yields may move upward and downward ...

Chief economist update: The BOJ kills off specs (for now)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2018
... 2019." With regard to long-term interest rates that shot up only a few days ago: "The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that 10-year JGB yields will remain at around zero percent. While doing so, the yields may move upward and downward ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... updating the market as more and more of the world's bonds trade at negative rates but you can still buy Japanese Government Bonds at positive yields. Duration still works. Bonds can still go up in price," Grow said. Though global investors have been ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... debt obligations yielding less than zero per cent. The BoJ now owns at least one-third of outstanding Japanese government bonds as a result of its asset purchase program. "Rather than letting portfolios slowly erode by being chained to benchmarks, which ...

Nikko handed Japanese fixed income mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... rates, Japanese investors are increasingly looking to mobilise their savings into investments other than Japanese government bonds. In this environment, higher yielding Australian bonds offer an attractive alternative, Nikko AM said. "This win demonstrates ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... anymore, since the BOJ has dirtied the bond market waters with its purchases - "The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that their amount outstanding will increase at an annual pace of about 50 trillion yen...". JGB investors certainly ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... "This BOJ printing seeps out daily into global markets as Japanese institutions which have sold their Japanese government bonds to the BOJ look for higher yielding replacements...Ten-year Treasurys to us look very low-yielding, but to them they yield ...

BOJ brings out big bazooka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... purchase to up to 40 years and that, "It will double the monetary base and the amounts outstanding of Japanese government bonds (JGBs) as well as exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in two years, and more than double the average remaining maturity of JGB purchases." ...

Global bonds sell-off from their unsustainable levels: ICAP

... the bond market, including the concerns expressed by the Bank of Japan over the extent of the rally in Japanese Government Bonds, the preparedness of the ECB to cut official rates by 50 bps, the Fed's recent manoeuvring creating suspicion that better ...
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