#government pension investment fund

The post Japan Is Repeating a Rare Policy Experiment That Rocked UK, Turkey, and US Markets appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Japan’s government is pushing public pension funds to buy more domestic assets, even as the Bank of Japan raises rates and trims its bond holdings. Japan’s policy split now pits fiscal stimulus against monetary tightening. Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said this week that Japan wants the Government Pension Investment Fund and other public funds to lift their home holdings. The goal is to steady bonds and the yen while the BOJ pulls back. Japan’s Policy Split is Deliberate The Government Pension Investment Fund manages about $1.8 trillion, making it the world’s largest. Close to half sits in foreign stocks and bonds, so even a small shift home moves global markets. The push follows earlier calls from lawmakers to invest more at home. That signal landed on hot inflation. Producer prices climbed 7.1% in June, up from 6.6% in May, official data showed. Oil, e

The post GBP/JPY Price Forecast: Bulls remain in control with RSI and MACD in positive territory appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. GBP/JPY trades under pressure on Friday after comments from Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama boosted the Japanese Yen (JPY). At the time of writing, the cross is trading around 217.10, down 0.30% on the day. Katayama said the government would encourage domestic pension funds, including the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), to increase their holdings of Japanese financial assets. However, the remarks did little to reverse the Yen’s broad-based weakness, leaving GBP/JPY pinned near levels last seen in 2008 and on track for a third consecutive weekly gain. Meanwhile, the British Pound (GBP) remains the strongest-performing G10 currency in recent weeks, supported by Bank of England (BoE) interest rate hike bets and easing political uncertainty in the United Kingdom. From a technical perspective, GBP/JPY maintains a bullish bias on the daily