{"id":2670,"date":"2025-07-14T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/boj-finishes-offloading-bank-stocks-bringing-attention-to-etfs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T11:24:23","slug":"boj-finishes-offloading-bank-stocks-bringing-attention-to-etfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/boj-finishes-offloading-bank-stocks-bringing-attention-to-etfs\/","title":{"rendered":"BOJ finishes offloading bank stocks, bringing attention to ETFs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bank of Japan finished selling millions of dollars of stocks it bought from besieged banks during a domestic banking crisis in the early 2000s and the later Lehman Shock, ending a nearly two decade process and bringing closer market attention to the fate of its much bigger pile of exchange-traded funds.<\/p>\n

The BOJ’s holdings of the shares purchased from banks hit zero as of July 10, falling from ¥2.5 billion ($17.4 million) 10 days ago, according to its balance sheet report Monday. It’s well ahead of a self-imposed deadline of March next year, although the milestone was expected to happen around this time after a steady drop of roughly ¥10 billion per month in recent years.<\/p>\n

The offloading of the shares suggest that the BOJ’s normalization process more broadly could be accomplished without disrupting financial markets, although it would take a considerable amount of time. The assets were originally bought as a crisis response measure, years before the introduction of the massive monetary easing program that Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s board is now in the process of unwinding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Bank of Japan finished selling millions of dollars of stocks it bought from besieged banks during a domestic banking crisis in the early 2000s and the later Lehman Shock, ending a nearly two decade process and bringing closer market attention to the fate of its much bigger pile of exchange-traded funds. The BOJ’s holdings…<\/p>\n

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