BOJ's government bond holdings top 40% for 1st time – Nikkei
|The Nikkei Asian Review reports headlines from the BOJ on Wednesday, citing that the central bank’s holdings of Japanese government bonds have topped 40% of the outstanding balance for the first time.
Statistics released by the bank the same day show that its JGB holdings stood at about 358 trillion yen ($3.19 trillion) as of the end of January, or about 40% of the outstanding total of some 894 trillion yen.
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