In the bond market on the 14th, long-term interest rates in the United States rose due to the view that the United States will continue to raise interest rates significantly. up to 0.25%.
The Bank of Japan is currently implementing large-scale monetary easing to keep the upper limit of fluctuations in 10-year government bond yields, which is a representative indicator of long-term interest rates, to around 0.25%.
Long-term interest rates tend to rise when government bonds are sold, but in the bond market on the 14th, Japanese government bonds were sold, and the long-term interest rate rose from 0.24% on the evening of the 13th to 0.25%.
It is the first time in about three months that the Bank of Japan has reached its upper limit.
A market insider said, ``The rate of increase in the US consumer price index last month, which was announced last night in Japan time, exceeded market expectations, and the view that a large interest rate hike will continue has spread, and US government bonds have been sold, and long-term interest rates have risen. In response to this trend, selling of Japanese government bonds also spread."