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The Bank of Japan refrained from loosening monetary policy at its first meeting with two new board members as it assessed the effect on the economy of an appreciating currency and Europe’s debt woes.
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Japan’s share of purchases of European rescue bonds is sliding even as the government pledges to continue supporting efforts to resolve the euro region’s sovereign-debt crisis.
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Japanese bonds rose, pushing 10-year yields to the lowest level since December 2008, as signs the global economic recovery is faltering boosted demand for government debt.
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Japan’s government bonds rose, pushing 10-year yields below 1 percent for the first time since August 2003, as the yen’s advance to an eight-month high against the dollar damped the outlook for exporters’ earnings.
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Japan reported its first trade deficit with the European Union since the Finance Ministry began tracking data in 1979 as the debt crisis roiling Spain and Greece limits a rebound in Japanese exports.
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Analysts from the 24 primary dealers in the Japanese government bond market comment on Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa ’s performance, in addition to Japan’s struggle with deflation and the power and limitations of monetary policy.
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China purchased Japanese long- maturity bonds for an eighth consecutive month as the larger nation seeks to diversify the world’s biggest currency reserves.
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Japan’s bonds fell for a third day as signs the U.S. economic recovery is picking up reduced demand for the relative safety of debt.
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Japanese bonds declined for the first time in five days as easing concern that the U.S. recovery will stall curbed demand for the safety of government debt.
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China bought more Japanese bonds than it sold for a seventh month in July, heading for a record annual increase, as a weakening dollar encouraged it to diversify debt holdings.
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