TOKYO : Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Wednesday the government must look into whether it can buy the central bank's huge holdings of exchange-traded funds (ETF) at book value.Suzuki made the remark in response to a proposal from an opposition lawmaker that the government buy the Bank o
TOKYO : Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Wednesday the government must look into whether it can buy the central bank's huge holdings of exchange-traded funds at book value.
"The government must look into whether it's permissible to buy at book value for the purpose of securing sources of revenue," Suzuki told parliament. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda told the same parliament session that it was premature to debate specifics on how the central bank could unload its ETF holdings.
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