The Bank of Japan bought 70.1 billion yen of exchange-traded funds on Thursday, stepping into the market for the sixth time this year. Japanese shares had earlier fallen sharply after Wall Street plunged overnight on fears that surging inflation would eat into corporate profits and usher in an economic slowdown.
Japanese government bond futures rose on Thursday, as investors sought save-haven assets after Wall Street plunged overnight on fears that surging inflation would eat into corporate profits and trigger an economic slowdown. Benchmark 10-year JGB futures rose 0.05 point to 149.57, with a trading volume of 12,002 lots.
U.S. Treasury yields fell in
choppy trading on Wednesday, tracking losses on Wall Street,
after poor U.S. housing data added to growing slowdown concerns
amid aggressive monetary tightening by the ...
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Treasury yields rose on Friday,
reversing the week's rally in bond prices driven by the largest
weekly inflows since COVID-19 slammed markets in March 2020, as
fears of a Federal Reserve policy ...
The Bank of England will probably need to raise interest rates much more sharply than financial markets expect to get soaring inflation under control, former policymakers said on Wednesday. The BoE's Monetary Policy Committee has raised its key interest rate four times since December to 1% - the highest level since 2009 - but still expects inflation to exceed 10% by the end of this year.
Treasury yields rebounded on
Wednesday after U.S. consumer price data showed the pace of
inflation slowed in April but perhaps has not peaked as prices
rose more than economists expected and ensured ...
Japanese government bond yields rose on Monday in sympathy with a climb in U.S. Treasury yields, but Bank of Japan bond buying and an auction of 10-year JGBs the following day limited the advance. The 10-year JGB yield rose 0.5 basis point to 0.245%, just shy of the 0.25% tolerance ceiling under the BOJ's near-zero yield target.
U.S. bond yields rose on Friday and the curve steepened even after data showed wage increase pressures eased somewhat as the labor market continued on a strong footing. U.S. job growth exceeded expectations in April, underscoring the economy's strong fundamentals despite a contraction in gross domestic product in the first quarter.
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