For Wes Goodman's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Japanese investors are scooping up bonds overseas to flee negative yields at home, driving a global debt-market rally. Money managers purchased a net ¥4.45 trillion of debt abroad from Feb. 12 to March 4, the biggest three-week outflow since the third quarter of 2010, based ...
The Bank of Japan made more on its bond holdings on paper in the past year than Mark Zuckerberg is worth. The valuation gain calculated by comparing the book value of the stake to the market value reached a record ¥4.81 trillion ($39 billion) as ...
The nomination of the Bank of Japan's newest board member is prompting investor speculation Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda will find it easier to expand monetary stimulus. Yukitoshi Funo, an adviser at Toyota Motor Corp. who previously ran its Asian business outside of Japan, is waiting to ...
Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has at least one strategist that shares the optimism he is showing in the world's third-largest economy. Kenro Kawano, chief bond strategist at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co. in Tokyo, says the BOJ will taper unprecedented stimulus in 2016 ...
Two leading investment strategists have offered a rare bullish view of the market, saying Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is achieving his goal of reviving the economy by weakening the yen, and there's more to come. Stefan Hofer, chief investment strategist in Asia at BNP Paribas ...
Back in the 1980s, the billions of dollars that the Japanese plowed into U.S. government debt reflected the Asian nation's burgeoning economic might. Now, they are at it again, only this time it is to eke out any return they can. Yields on Japanese debt have ...
What started as a plan to reduce the national debt is turning into a reason to issue more bonds. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration implemented a higher consumption tax in April to boost revenue as government liabilities ballooned to ¥1 quadrillion ($8.5 trillion), more than ...
Japan is expanding efforts to attract buyers to the nation's growing debt load, flooding the backs of taxi cabs for the first time with pamphlets in the hopes of getting retirees to invest more money in bonds. "Government bonds are worth another look," the Finance ...
