📢 📢 📢 The Bank of Japan kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged on Friday, but indicated it’s considering the reduction of its purchase of Japanese government bonds.
The central bank left short-term rates unchanged at between 0% to 0.1% at the end of its two-day policy meeting, as widely expected. But notably, the bank said in its statement it could reduce its purchases of Japanese government bonds after the next monetary policy meeting, scheduled for July 30 and 31. QE tapering in Japan has a lot more potency than in the U.S., sheerly because of how much of the bond market the BOJ owns. Following the BOJ decision, the Japanese yen weakened 0.5% to 157.8 against the U.S. dollar, while the yield on 10-year JGB fell 44 basis points to 0.924. So absolutely no panic... Source: Bloomberg, CNBC
Brussels will impose tariffs of up to almost 50 per cent on Chinese electric vehicles, brushing aside German government warnings that the move could spark a trade war with Beijing.
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japan just sold $17 billion worth of Foreign Debt, the largest sale in 9 years...
Source: Bloomberg, Barchart
Goldman Sachs on the mixed impact of corporate stock splits
“Share prices typically rise after a firm announces a stock split. In theory, there is no change in the underlying value of a company when it splits its stock. However, empirically, the academic literature has generally found positive announcement effects around stock splits. We consider a sample of 46 Russell 1000 firms that completed stock splits since 2019. On average, these stocks generated a 4 pp excess return vs. the equal-weight S&P 500 in the week following stock split announcement. However, the stock price did not evidence a clear reaction after the stock split took effect. In addition, because many companies announce stock splits alongside earnings releases, it can be challenging to know how much of the stock rallies are due to the stock split as opposed to strong earnings results”. Source: Goldman Sachs
Goldman and Bank of America expect another bounce as July Communist Party meeting seen including more support measures.
Source: South China Morning Post
BREAKING: SPOT GOLD PRICE TUMBLED BY $20 PER OUNCE AS CHINA'S PBOC STOPPED GOLD RESERVES BUILDING.
China's end-May forex reserves are $3.2320 trillion, higher than the previous $3.2008tln. Gold reserves were unchanged at 72.80 million ounces, and the value of gold reserves was $170.9bln vs the previous $167.9 bln as gold price increased in May. Source: CN Wire
Japan likely dumped billions of U.S. Treasury holdings to finance its latest Yen intervention
Source: Barchart
Ray Dalio says benefits of investing in China outweigh risks
Source: South China Morning Post
