{"id":190780,"date":"2025-06-17T04:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T04:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190780\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T04:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T04:45:10","slug":"boj-poised-to-ease-bond-tapering-amid-market-volatility-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190780\/","title":{"rendered":"BoJ Poised to Ease Bond Tapering Amid Market Volatility Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, sources close to the matter have indicated to Reuters that the BoJ is unlikely to implement any drastic changes to its existing QT framework.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the focus will be on a measured deceleration of bond reductions from the next fiscal year onwards. This cautious stance is designed to preempt market upheaval, particularly after government long-term bond yields witnessed a notable surge last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Under its current plan, the Bank of Japan has been gradually cutting bond purchases by approximately 400 billion yen per quarter, with an aim to halve its monthly buying to 3 trillion yen by March 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Should the BoJ opt for a 200 billion yen per quarter reduction from fiscal year 2026, monthly purchases would consequently fall to around 2 trillion yen by the close of that fiscal year in March 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>BoJ Signals Continued Rate Hikes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, BoJ Governor Kazuo Ueda is anticipated to signal the central bank&#8217;s ongoing readiness for further interest rate increases.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This prospective tightening factors in the potential risks posed by US tariffs, balanced against persistent domestic food inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a speech on 3rd June, Ueda reaffirmed the Japanese economy&#8217;s resilience against the impact of higher US import duties, acknowledging that their effects on Japan could be more substantial than initially forecast.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 However, sources close to the matter have indicated to Reuters that the BoJ is unlikely to implement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3091],"tags":[48378,51,12810,2441,17436,78133,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-190780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-bank-of-japan","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-central-bank","11":"tag-markets","12":"tag-monetary-policy","13":"tag-tighten","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114696888228661011","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}