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17 Jul 2013
BoJ Minutes offers no surprises
FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - The BoJ Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes came with no surprises for the market.
The minutes makes reference to the meeting held on 10-11 June, a time in which despite the spikes in the local bond market, the BoJ decided not to implement any new measures. Ever since, as explained earlier, the volatility in bonds has been largely reduced while the economic outlook upgraded.
In the latest minutes, the main headlines were:
- The Bank of Japan will conduct money market operations so that the monetary base will increase at an annual pace of about 60-70 trillion yen
- The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that their amount outstanding will increase at an annual pace of about 50 trillion yen, and the average remaining maturity of the Bank's JGB purchases will be about seven years.
- The Bank will purchase exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and Japan real estate investment trusts (J-REITs) so that their amounts outstanding will increase at an annual pace of about 1 trillion yen and about 30 billion yen respectively.
- As for CP and corporate bonds, the Bank will continue with those asset purchases until their amounts outstanding reach 2.2 trillion yen and 3.2 trillion yen respectively by end-2013; thereafter, it will maintain those amounts outstanding.
- Japan's economy has been picking up. Japan's economy is expected to return to a moderate recovery path, mainly against the background that domestic demand increases its resilience due to the effects of monetary easing as well as various economic measures, and that growth rates of overseas economies gradually pick up, albeit moderately.
- The year-on-year rate of change in the CPI is likely to gradually turn positive.
- The Bank will continue with quantitative and qualitative monetary easing, aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2 percent, as long as it is necessary for maintaining that target in a stable manner.
The minutes makes reference to the meeting held on 10-11 June, a time in which despite the spikes in the local bond market, the BoJ decided not to implement any new measures. Ever since, as explained earlier, the volatility in bonds has been largely reduced while the economic outlook upgraded.
In the latest minutes, the main headlines were:
- The Bank of Japan will conduct money market operations so that the monetary base will increase at an annual pace of about 60-70 trillion yen
- The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that their amount outstanding will increase at an annual pace of about 50 trillion yen, and the average remaining maturity of the Bank's JGB purchases will be about seven years.
- The Bank will purchase exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and Japan real estate investment trusts (J-REITs) so that their amounts outstanding will increase at an annual pace of about 1 trillion yen and about 30 billion yen respectively.
- As for CP and corporate bonds, the Bank will continue with those asset purchases until their amounts outstanding reach 2.2 trillion yen and 3.2 trillion yen respectively by end-2013; thereafter, it will maintain those amounts outstanding.
- Japan's economy has been picking up. Japan's economy is expected to return to a moderate recovery path, mainly against the background that domestic demand increases its resilience due to the effects of monetary easing as well as various economic measures, and that growth rates of overseas economies gradually pick up, albeit moderately.
- The year-on-year rate of change in the CPI is likely to gradually turn positive.
- The Bank will continue with quantitative and qualitative monetary easing, aiming to achieve the price stability target of 2 percent, as long as it is necessary for maintaining that target in a stable manner.