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Dawn Chorus: Bank of Japan ramps up printing again
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Dawn Chorus: Bank of Japan ramps up printing again

Japanese central bank pledges unlimited printing to keep its 10 year interest rate below 0.25%; NZ dollar jumps sharply vs yen; Shanghai lockdowns raise demand shock fears, which drag on oil price
Bernard Hickey
Mar 28, 2022
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TLDR & TLDL: Japan’s central bank unleashed a fresh wall of money printing to buy its Government bonds, which risks creating new waves of cash that bounce around the world to lift asset prices, including in Aotearoa-NZ as the ‘Japanese housewives and Belgian dentists’ return to buy NZ dollar bonds. See more in my analysis below.

The NZ dollar surged to a…

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