A new monetary tool introduced by the Bank of Japan to keep long-term interest rates from rising could ultimately become a new policy target once the bank abandons its yield control, a former central bank official told Reuters.
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Specifically, the BOJ amended rules for an existing market operation tool, so it can pump funds extending up to 10 years in variable rates to financial institutions against collateral. Tetsuya Inoue, a senior researcher at Nomura Research Institute and a former BOJ official, said the central bank probably had another, long-term objective for the tool: guiding interest rates after ending yield curve control , a policy that sets a -0.1% target for short-term rates and that for the 10-year bond yield around zero.
"With this new tool, the BOJ may have prepared for when it ends YCC and begins normalising monetary policy," Inoue told Reuters on Thursday.
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