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  • Ueda, Kazu (Gov BoJ)
    Features

    Japan: New hand on the tiller

    May 2023 (Magazine)

    Kazuo Ueda, is the first new governor of the Bank of Japan (BoJ) in 10 years. One of outgoing governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s last moves was to widen the yield curve control (YCC) band on 10-year bonds from +/-25bps to +/-50bps. The reaction from the bond market over the following few days was to trade to the new upper limit.