Bill’s Commentary:
“Roughly 10% of Japan’s Treasury holdings… in just one month?”
Japan Sold Almost $90 Billion In Treasuries To Fund Record Yen Intervention
At the end of July, the only question following Japan’s record $90 billion yen intervention (which worked for about two weeks before the effects faded and Bessent had to engage in more market intervention), was whether and how much Treasuries Japan had sold as part of the intervention.
We now now the answers: i) yes and ii) a lot.
According to Finance Ministry reserve data released Monday, Tokyo’s holdings of foreign securities fell by $87.8 billion at the end of August from a month earlier. That decline was close to the scale of Japan’s recent intervention to support the yen. Analysts suggested Japan likely sold Treasuries at the short end of the maturity spectrum, Bloomberg reported.
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