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inigyoutoday at 1:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

Japan has to sell off its bonds to get dollars to buy oil with since oil is so expensive. I wonder why that happened.


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timrtoday at 2:07 PM

No. That has nothing to do with this.

Setting aside the obvious fact that the BOJ does not buy oil, they’ve been engaged in a (futile) currency defense scheme since long before the Iran conflict. This is purely about the interest rate spread.

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