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Japan’s top bond-trading regional bank buys JGBs after decade break

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By Taiga Uranaka Verified
| The Japan Times Verified
The Japanese regional bank with the best recent record for trading bonds has started buying Japanese government debt for the first time in a decade. Iyogin Holdings started testing the $7 trillion market in April with small purchases of superlong bonds, marking the bank’s first Japanese government bond (JGB) investment in 10 years, according its CEO Kenji Miyoshi.
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Mizuho CEO floats idea of first outsized BOJ hike since 1990

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By Taiga Uranaka Verified, Shery Ahn Verified, Hideki Suzuki
| The Japan Times Verified
Mizuho Financial Group’s chief executive officer suggested that the Bank of Japan might be better off considering an outsized interest-rate increase to combat inflation — a move the central bank hasn’t undertaken since the country’s asset bubble in 1990. Masahiro Kihara expects the BOJ to raise rates in June or July, he said in an interview on Wednesday. Whether they do or not is unlikely to have a big impact on the market unless the increase is large, he said.
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Mizuho CEO Floats Idea of First Outsized BOJ Hike Since 1990

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By Taiga Uranaka Verified, Shery Ahn Verified, Hideki Suzuki
| Financial Post Verified
Mizuho Financial Group Inc.’s chief executive officer suggested that the Bank of Japan might be better off considering an outsized interest-rate increase to combat inflation — a move the central bank hasn’t undertaken since the country’s asset bubble in 1990.
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