“Bank of Japan officials see several reasons against intervening in the bond market”

March 12, 2025 at 10:54PM

Bank of Japan Governor Ueda was on the wires yesterday re rising JGB yields

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Bloomberg had a piece up subsequently saying

Bank of Japan officials see several reasons against intervening in the bond market even after benchmark yields hit the highest level since 2008

Bloomberg is gated, in brief:

Officials are determined not to step into the market unless extreme moves take place, for fear of creating thresholds for traders that would impact market functioning

investors need to get used to a world without the central bank’s yield curve control after the program ended last year

Bloomberg citing ‘people familiar’.

I think the views expressed by these unnamed officials are in line with what we’ve been thinking in response to Ueda’s comments. The BoJ will be there if needed, but conditions would have to have deteriorated markedly for them to step in.

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.