For years, global markets benefited from a silent advantage🚨🚨
Japan exported liquidity Capital was raised cheaply in yen and deployed elsewhere, inflating returns across risk assets.
That mechanism is now breaking.
Japan's monetary stance is no longer an outlier:
- Policy rate now sits at 0.75%, a level unseen since the mid-90s
- The 10Y JGB at 1.96% signals a regime shift in domestic yields
- Roughly $534B in ETF exposure faces long-duration rebalancing
- Japan still anchors global bond markets as the top foreign U.S. Treasury holder This is not a cosmetic adjustment. It's a structural reset.