If its Thursday it must be ‘International Transactions in Securities’, from Japan’s Ministry of Finance.

For the week ending August 9 (link to last week’s data)

  • Japan Buying Foreign Bonds, (previous week was Y 689.9bn)
  • Japan Buying Foreign Stocks, (previous week was Y -19.5bn)
  • Foreign Buying Japan Bonds, (previous week was Y 124.4bn)
  • Foreign Buying Japan Stocks, (previous week was Y -42.2bn)

We are starting to see a trickle of net buying of Foreign bonds from Japan: