Anonymous ID: 6bf04c March 22, 2020, 9:56 p.m. No.8527572   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

BOJ, RBA to Spend $10 Billion More in Effort to Tame Bond Market

 

Central banks boosted efforts to tame bond markets Monday, with the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Bank of Japan offering to buy the equivalent of almost $10 billion in debt. New Zealand embraced quantitative easing.

 

The RBA said it would spend as much as A$4 billion ($2.3 billion) on government debt, sending 10-year yields down 25 basis points. The BOJ offered to take in 800 billion yen ($7.3 billion) of three-to-10 year securities in addition to scheduled buying of longer maturities.

 

A global credit crunch as companies hoard cash and investors seek dollar as a haven asset amid the coronavirus pandemic is squeezing financial markets globally. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand on Monday said it would purchase up to NZ$30 billion ($17 billion) of sovereign bonds over the next 12 months.

 

โ€œCentral banks around the world see the provision of funds as more effective right now than cutting rates,โ€ said Shuichi Ohsaki, chief rates strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Tokyo. โ€œThe BOJ on its part is conducting funding operations to ensure yields will not rise.โ€

https://www.bloomberg.com//news/articles/2020-03-23/boj-rba-to-spend-10-billion-more-in-effort-to-tame-bond-market