Flood of Japanese cash ready to buy Treasuries as potential Fed rate hike looms
Treasuries are off to their worst start to a year in over four decades, but Japanese investors may soon ride to their rescue.
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Treasuries are off to their worst start to a year in over four decades, but Japanese investors may soon ride to their rescue.
Apr 14, 2021 As Japan’s life insurers lay out their annual strategies this month, traders will be looking for the answer to one question — what do some of the world’s biggest investors plan to do about Treasuries? With the path of Treasury yields set to determine investments across the financial world, the intentions of a large cohort of the biggest foreign holders of U.S. government debt will be a crucial input. Japanese investors were on track to be net sellers of Treasuries for the sixth year in seven in their fiscal year to March, according to U.S. Treasury data through Jan...