The Bank of Japan decided to revise some of the current large-scale monetary easing measures at the monetary policy meeting held until the 20th.
Up until now, short-term interest rates have been negative, and long-term interest rates have been kept at around 0%. was changed to plus or minus 0.5%.
Increase purchases of long-term government bonds
In addition, we have decided to increase the amount of long-term government bond purchases from next month to March from 7.3 trillion yen to 9 trillion yen per month.
Yen exchange rate rises by more than 4 yen to the first half of the 133 yen level, the first high yen level in 4 months
In response to this, the movement to buy yen spread on the Tokyo foreign exchange market on the 20th, and the yen exchange rate rose by more than 4 yen to the lower 133 yen level to the dollar, the highest level in four months since August this year. have become.
A market insider said, ``The market has taken the BOJ's revision of monetary policy as a surprise. increase.