BoJ passes up yet another opportunity to come clean on soft taper - Westpac
|The BoJ passed up yet another opportunity to come clean on its ‘soft taper’ when it again argued that it will conduct JGB purchases at ‘more or less’ ¥80tn per year, explains Robert Rennie, Research Analyst at Westpac.
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“Now the fact that it has not done so since November of last year and is currently buying about half of that total is clearly not seen as a market issue. However, we do see the fact that they will eventually have to confirm their taper as a factor holding USD/JPY back.”
“Bar this, we have stuck with the view that the downside for USD/JPY was limited below 109.50 on the basis that the market was under-pricing the Fed and ongoing strong Japanese buying of foreign markets.”
“However, above 113 it starts to look expensive to us. It will be a long time before the Fed’s taper is felt and long term neutral dots have fallen again. Thus we are neutral at current levels.”
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