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Reuters: US Dollar Report: Japanese net buying of foreign bonds slows in latest week

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Japanese net buying of foreign bonds slows in latest week
Aug 1st 2013, 02:08

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Wed Jul 31, 2013 10:08pm EDT

  * Japan investors mark longest net foreign bond-buying  streak since Nov      * Foreigners turn net sellers of Japan shares after 5 weeks  of buying        TOKYO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Japan's longest foreign bond-buying  binge since November continued last week, according to data  released on Thursday, but Japanese investors' appetite for  overseas debt faded.      Japanese buyers took in a net 233.2 billion yen ($2.37  billion) of foreign bonds in the week through July 27, the  fourth straight week of net purchases, capital flows data  compiled by the Ministry of Finance showed.      But net buying slumped from 601.4 billion yen in the  previous week and 1.109 trillion yen the week before, which was  the largest amount since September 2012.      Some Japanese investors looked for higher returns abroad as  the Bank of Japan's aggressive monetary easing policy has put a  lid on domestic bond yields.       The benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield   touched a two-month low of 0.770 percent brushed  last week, and has mostly stuck to a narrow 0.80 percent to 0.90  percent range since late May.       By contrast, the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S.  Treasury note is trading above 2.5 percent, on  perceptions that the U.S. Federal Reserve is likely to begin  tapering the $85 billion in mortgage and Treasury securities it  buys each month to stimulate the U.S. economy.      However, the U.S. central bank offered no signs at its  latest meeting that such a tapering was imminent.         "The taper story came in May and then continued into June,  and then in July didn't have much development," giving Japanese  investors less incentive to buy U.S. debt, said Maki Shimizu,  senior strategist at Citigroup in Tokyo.           "I'm rather surprised that they're still buying because  there is a risk that yields [on U.S. Treasuries] can jump from  2.5 percent," she added.      The weekly capital flows data also revealed that foreign  investors turned net sellers of Japanese stocks last week,  breaking a five-week buying trend by unloading a net 61.8  billion yen worth of shares.      The Nikkei stock average shed 0.1 percent in July,  falling for a third month.      The ministry's weekly data is based on surveys of financial  institutions and does not break down the flows by destination or  specific investment instruments.  
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