bloomberg.com - 1/22/2009
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Jan. 22 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan cut its growth forecasts and said it will consider buying corporate bonds to prevent a shortage of credit from deepening the recession. The central bank may buy corporate bonds with a maturity of up to one year, it said in a statement released today in ...
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BOJ Considers Buying Corporate Bonds
Calculated Risk —
From Bloomberg: BOJ to Consider Buying Company Bonds; Cuts Forecasts The Bank of Japan said it ... may buy corporate bonds with a maturity of up to one year ... Policy makers today slashed their forecasts for growth and signaled a return to deflation in a quarterly review of the economic outlook. It sounds like Japan and the U.K are both in worse shape than the U.S. A late night thread for you all.
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