TOKYO: The Bank of Japan’s offer to buy over US$28bil of government bills fell short of enticing enough sellers, the first failure since the BoJ began the current stimulus last year and a sign of the receding potency of its easing programme.
The failure underscores growing difficulties of force-feeding banks with liquidity as they become less eager to take cash from the BoJ in a faltering economy.
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