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Foreign traders snap up long-term Japan bonds after three-week promoting streak

May 16, 2024 | blog

(Reuters) – Foreign traders ended a three-week pattern of promoting Japanese bonds by buying long-term securities, though analysts recommend the rebound might be fleeting amid ongoing market uncertainties.

They purchased 1.7 trillion yen in long-term bonds within the week ended May 10, the most important buy in eight weeks, based on Ministry of Finance knowledge.

Foreigners offloaded about 2.43 trillion yen value of short-term native bonds after netting roughly 3.78 trillion yen the earlier week, knowledge confirmed.

After elevating rates of interest in March, the Bank of Japan held charges regular on the finish of April and continued its standard bond purchases.

While some perceived this stability positively, there are issues that the Japanese bond market nonetheless faces challenges, together with the potential for tighter financial coverage, yen volatility and rising inflation.

In the Japanese equities market, cross-border outflows eased to 17.28 billion yen in the course of the week ended May 10, from about 263.31 billion yen outflows within the earlier week, knowledge from inventory exchanges confirmed.

Overseas traders nonetheless bought about 263.61 billion yen value of money equities, due to a draw back shock in U.S. job progress that rekindled hopes of charge cuts by the Federal Reserve this yr.

They offered spinoff contracts of about 280.89 billion yen final week.

Japanese home traders, in the meantime, remained web sellers of long-term overseas bonds for a 3rd successive week, withdrawing about 396.6 billion yen on a web foundation. They, nonetheless, poured about 21 billion yen into short-term debt devices.

Meanwhile, home gamers shed about 387.3 billion yen of abroad equities after two weeks of web purchases in a row.

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