Japan's national government ministry overseeing fiscal policy, the budget, taxation, and currency intervention, working alongside the Bank of Japan.
Nippon Life, Meiji Yasuda and Daiichi Life, with nearly 220 trillion yen between them, are due to unveil investment plans next week. The analysts quoted by name expect JGB buying without a broad sale of foreign bonds.
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Governor Kazuo Ueda's board hiked 25 basis points on a 7-2 vote and the yen still slid toward 158 per dollar, because the Federal Reserve had taken the same 25 basis points two days earlier and left the gap between the two unchanged.
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Japan's Finance Ministry held the first meeting of a study group on putting government bonds on a blockchain, laying out three designs aimed at new buyers. Its pitch to overseas on-chain holders is a place to park idle cash, demand that tends to sit in short paper while Tokyo's weak bids have come at 10-year auctions.
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Japan's Ministry of Finance sold 7.27 trillion yen of retail government bonds in nine months, 291 billion yen short of the record set in 2007. The record looks all but certain, but the sums are small next to household cash and do little for the yields Tokyo pays.
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The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and Japan's Ministry of Finance co-led technical talks in Puerto Princesa on making the CMIM rapid financing facility permanent and on settling more regional trade in local currencies.
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Traders are waiting on Thursday's PPI and Friday's CPI, but the order book already brackets spot at 78,800 and 80,500, and with a quarter-point hike 58.4% priced there is less left for the Sept. 16 meeting to move.
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Totan Research puts a Bank of Japan hike at 93%, which turns the repricing of yen-funded AI positions from a threat into a date, and the 176 basis points between Tokyo and Washington is what the trade has to cover.
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The reported figures imply Tokyo was buying yen at about 159.5 to the dollar, which now trades at 160.20, and the rate gap that produced the slide sits exactly where it did. That is what a record defence buys when you cannot set the other side's policy.
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Scott Bessent says recent yen moves are "pretty well contained." Dollar-yen sits at 160.15, a month after Washington's first yen intervention in almost 30 years. The defence has cost roughly $11bn a yen.
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The levy collected inside every airfare out of Japan is now funding bear capture and beetle control. For anyone budgeting against it, that is a reliability problem.
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The Finance Ministry lifted its assumed bond rate to 3.8% from 3%, and debt service jumped 17% to a record 36.6 trillion yen. The fiscal 2027 request now tops 130 trillion yen.
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Ministry of Finance flow data show a bid under global stocks and bonds funded by yen carry, and repriced in July by one minister's suggestion about GPIF.
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A doubled Treasury buyback covers 2.4% of the long end. Yields went up anyway and the dollar index hit a 100-day low, which is not how the rate-currency relationship is meant to work.
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