Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda says massive bond buying may hurt market functioning

  • Kuroda concedes BOJ policy to by massive JGB amounts may be hurting market functions but says need to maintain massive monetary easing

Bank of Japan Governor Kuroda says the 2% inflation target has not been achieved stably, sustainably.

Thus the BOJ must continue its monetary easing.

Concedes though that market functioning may be impaired.

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Cracks beginning to show from Kuroda? If you want to read it that way you could I guess.

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  • recent sharp, short-term forex moves are undesirable
  • premature to debate exit of ultra-easy policy
  • important for forex rates to move stably reflecting economic, financial fundamentals
  • Japan's economy still in midst of recovering from pandemic's pain, so important to maintain powerful monetary easing
  • BOJ’s median board forecast shows inflation won't stably reach target in fiscal 2023

  • BOJ's median board forecast for core-core consumer inflation shows inflation will steadily accelerate through 2024

  • it will take some more time, but convinced Japan can achieve BOJ’s price target

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