Global Market: Foreign investors dump Japanese bonds as BOJ tightening weighs on sentiment
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- ✓Foreign investors recorded their largest weekly outflow from Japanese bonds in the week ended September 26.
- ✓They sold 4.61 trillion yen worth of bonds as the Bank of Japan signalled further rate hikes.
- ✓Yields climbed to multi-decade highs, and many investors also sold equities, showing a shift in market sentiment.
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Foreign investors recorded their largest weekly outflow from Japanese bonds since March, selling 4.61 trillion yen in the week through September 26 amid a global bond-market selloff and expectations of further Bank of Japan rate hikes. Japanese bond yields climbed to multi-decade highs, while foreign investors also sold equities. Japanese investors, meanwhile, continued buying foreign equities but remained net sellers of long-term overseas bonds.
Foreign investors recorded their largest weekly outflow from Japanese bonds in the week ended September 26, amid a global bond-market selloff and expectations of further Bank of Japan policy tightening, Reuters reported.
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