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Japan’s exit from yield curve control has investors on edge

Investors remain on edge for Japan's Pandora's box

Not Davos, but Tokyo has the markets’ attention this week. The Bank of Japan earlier today defied market expectations by keeping its Yield Curve Control interest rate policy unchanged, at least for now. Markets question however how long the BoJ can sustain this now that global government bond yields are rising. Japan could be sitting on Pandora’s box.

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