🚨 MACRO ALERT: BANK OF JAPAN STEPS BACK — BOND MARKET UNDER PRESSURE 🇯🇵📉
The era of endless liquidity in Japan is quietly ending.
The Bank of Japan (BoJ) — long known as the ultimate buyer of last resort — is pulling back aggressively from the bond market, and the impact is starting to show.
🏦 What’s Happening?
📉 BoJ JGB Ownership Falls to ~48%
Lowest level in 8 years
Down 7 percentage points from the 2022 peak
Marks a clear exit from the Yield Curve Control (YCC) era
This isn’t accidental. It’s deliberate quantitative tightening (QT).
⏳ Tapering on Autopilot
The BoJ is cutting bond purchases fast:
🟡 Mid-2024: ¥5.7T/month
🔻 Now: ¥2.9T/month
⏭️ Target (early 2027): ¥2.1T/month
Liquidity support is being removed — and the schedule is locked in.
🌍 Foreign Investors Are Leaving Too
Foreign ownership of JGBs: ~12%
Near the lowest level since 2019
Global capital is chasing higher yields elsewhere and avoiding FX risk
👉 Result: Both major buyers are stepping away at the same time
⚠️ Why This Matters
📌 Government debt issuance continues
📌 Demand is shrinking
📌 Supply-demand imbalance is growing
➡️ Yield pressure is now structurally skewed higher
This is a major shift for global markets that relied on Japan’s liquidity spillover for years.
🧠 Big Picture
Japan is no longer the global liquidity backstop it once was.
As QT accelerates and buyers disappear, volatility risk rises — not just for bonds, but for global assets.
Macro is waking up. Stay alert.
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