USD/JPY: Yen benefits from BoJ’s JGB purchases – Commerzbank
|Ulrich Leuchtmann, Head of FX and Commodity Research at Commerzbank expresses his take on the impact of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) bond purchases on the Japanese Yen.
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“The Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) decision to allow higher JGB yields had spontaneously been interpreted as the beginning of the end of ultra-expansionary monetary policy not only by me.“
“It seemed to be the general interpretation. In the meantime the market no longer seemed to be 100% certain whether that was correct. Because the BoJ justified its explanation with purely market-technical reasons. USD-JPY temporarily traded with a 134 handle.”
“However, in particular the fact that Japanese central bankers will have to defend the new upper limit for JGB yields with even more determination resulted in a reversal. USD-JPY is once again trading at levels around 131.00 (while I write this), so roughly where the currency pair was trading following the BoJ decision.”
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