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Yen Plummets After BOJ Crushes Hawks: Will Take Up To 1.5 Years To Review Current Policy
In a slap to the face of all those who naively expected that the BOJ would finally unveil some hawkish pivot (ignoring the fact that it owns more than 100% of Japan GDP in JGBs, has a DV01 in the tens of billions, and any market recoil to a hawkish BOJ pivot would instantly implode the world's 2nd biggest bond market) overnight the BOJ scrapped a key part of its forward guidance on interest rates in Kazuo Ueda’s first board meeting as governor, signaling the first step towards unwinding its ultra-loose monetary policy... an unwind which won't come for over a year however, if ever, and by then Japan will be back in ... (full story)