From Insight Investment The Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced on 31 October that it would dramatically increase the scale of its quantitative easing (QE) programme. Passed by a majority 5-4 vote of the BoJ’s Policy Board, it announced the intention to purchase ¥80 trillion (£440bn) of Japanese government bonds a year, marking an increase […] Read more »
Market Reactions to the Bank of Japan’s Monetary Policy Decision
By Nathan Gibbs, Manager of the Schroder Japan Alpha Plus Fund The newly constituted Policy Board of the Bank of Japan completed its first meeting today under the leadership of Mr Kuroda, the new Governor. Given the strong language used in recent weeks by both the Governor and the Prime Minister, Mr Abe, investors already […] Read more »