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Dec 30, 2020 Tokyo stocks are likely to climb in 2021 with progress in global COVID-19 vaccinations helping to improve the business climate and Japan’s accommodative monetary policies remaining in place. Analysts forecast the benchmark 225-issue Nikkei stock average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which finished 2020 trading Wednesday at 27,444.17 — the highest year-end close since 1989 — will move between 21,000 and 30,500 in 2021. “In the first half of 2021, the stock market will still be weighed down by the continuing pandemic. But as more people get vaccinated, there will be...

The Market the Central Bank Bought The Bank of Japan becomes the country’s largest stockholder. Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot and Mary O'Grady on identity politics and corporate boards. Image: Stephen Chernin/Getty Images By Dec. 15, 2020 6:25 pm ET The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee is meeting this week, and we’ll learn Wednesday if it will expand its purchases of Treasurys and private bonds. Which makes it a good moment to point out that the Bank of Japan is now that country’s largest single owner of equities. This is a milestone worth...

2020-12-15 11:05:27 GMT2020-12-15 19:05:27(Beijing Time) Xinhua English TOKYO, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks ended lower Tuesday on concerns over the economic fallout from the government's abrupt planned suspension of its subsidized travel campaign over the year-end holiday period amid a surge in COVID-19 cases. The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 44.60 points, or 0.17 percent, from Monday to close the day at 26,687.84 The broader Topix index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, meanwhile, dropped 8.47 points, or 0.47 percent, to finish the day at 1,782.05. L...

Русский Tokyo, Dec. 13 (Jiji Press)--The Bank of Japan apparently became the largest stock investor in the country, a decade after starting purchases of exchange-traded funds as part of monetary easing, raising concerns about its influence on share prices. The central bank began ETF purchases in December 2010 under Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, first aiming to buy 450 billion yen's worth of ETFs. But the program has since expanded gradually and an upper limit on its annual purchases reached as much as 12 trillion yen in March. The BOJ owned ETFs worth 35 trillion yen in book value as of ...

As Citizens Suffer Central Banks Flush Trading Houses With Trillions, Ease Corporate Strains Central banks across the world have been increasing stimulus and letting inflation run high in order to combat the disastrous economic effects of the coronavirus outbreak response. The Bank of Japan has recently become the country’s largest stockholder and the European Central Bank is prepared to expand its colossal stimulus program. Meanwhile, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is calling on Congress to act fast on America’s stimulus program proposal as “the risk of overdoin...