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  1. Japan Likely Sold Treasuries to Fund Record Yen Defense

    Tokyo's foreign securities holdings fell $87.8 billion in August, close to the scale of its record currency intervention, Bloomberg and official data suggest.

    pulseofnations.lol/japan-likel

    #BankOfJapan #Fx #Intervention #Japan #Treasuries #Yen

  2. > According to the latest data from the US Treasury, #China lowered its T-Bill holdings by $900 million, from $757.2 billion in April to $756.3 billion in the month of May.

    > The sell-off marks China’s third straight shedding of #Treasuries since February, when the Asian powerhouse held $784.3 billion worth of US #bonds.

    dailyhodl.com/2025/07/21/china

    #investing #finance #globalFinance #dedollarization #brics #usd #usdollar #gold

  3. @GhostOnTheHalfShell the explanation i've settled on for myself about the various japanese carry trades is pretty simple:

    1. ever since the 1989 crash Bank of Japan has loaned out money at insanely low rates (0% or even negative sometimes IIRC)

    2. people like to borrow money from bank of japan and invest it in other stuff (like US treasuries) and pick up a small rate of return (e.g. if a japanese bank is charging 0.5% and treasuries pay 2% you can make 1.5% "for free")

    3. because the rate of return is low people juice their returns by levering the fuck up and borrowing $50 for every $1 they're actually putting in

    4. this amount of leverage means that even small movements in the value of the asset (e.g. US treasuries) blows people up (e.g. at 50x leverage a 2% move is death)

    the specifics of each carry trade are hard to follow but BOJ has been regarded as a ticking time bomb for a long time now

    #BondMarket #economics #economy #treasuries #uspol #Japan #BankOfJapan #BOJ #carrytrade