BoJ to widen 10-year yield tolerance band further

With US Treasury yields set to keep rising over the coming year, it will become even more difficult for the Bank of Japan to defend its target for 10-year JGB yields. While we don’t expect the Bank to abandon Yield Curve Control altogether, we think it will widen its tolerance band further, perhaps to ±50bp.

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