The Bank of Japan will probably need at least nine years to normalize its balance sheet in the earliest-case scenario after a massive monetary easing program that has run for more than a decade ...

The decision came as an escalating Middle East conflict and U.S. tariffs complicate the BOJ's task of raising still-low interest rates and reducing a balance sheet that has ballooned to roughly the ...

Central bank balance sheets appear to have troughed. (TS Lombard, The Market Ear) Expansion of central banks' balance sheets is widely considered bullish for risk assets, including bitcoin.

The Bank of Japan had announced at its meeting on July 31, 2024, that it would start QT, and it’s showing up on the balance sheet. It started shedding its holdings of corporate bonds and commercial ...

TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist Key equity, bond, currency and commodity prices mostly ended little changed on Wednesday, as ...

By 2016, however, the Bank of Japan’s balance-sheet was ballooning, and it introduced a yield cap in the hope of keeping yields low while making fewer purchases.

The program’s outstanding loans stood at ¥77 trillion ($496 billion) as of Jan. 20, accounting for around 10.4% of the central bank’s overall balance sheet, according to BOJ data.

TOKYO] Some Bank of Japan (BBOJ) policymakers called for keeping interest rates steady for the time being due to uncertainty ...