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 Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Tuesday and decided to decelerate the pace of its balance sheet drawdown next year, signaling its preference to move cautiously in removing remnants of ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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

The requests, made at the BOJ’s meeting with bond market participants on May 20-21, heighten the chance that the BOJ will proceed slowly in reducing its huge balance sheet. SEE ALSO Bank of Japan’s ...

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Tuesday and decided to decelerate the pace of its balance sheet drawdown next year, signaling its preference to move cautiously in removing remnants of ...