The Bank of Japan expanded its 10-year Japanese government bond yield target band on Tuesday, surprising market participants, pushing the yen sharply higher, and led to a fall in government bonds.
At the policy meeting of the BoJ, board members unanimously decided to maintain a negative interest rate of -0.1 percent on current accounts that financial institutions maintain at the central bank.
The bank will also continue to purchase a necessary amount of JGBs without setting an upper limit so that 10-year JGB yields will remain at around zero percent.
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