BlackRock's comments on the Bank of Japan are in the context of the firm holding a 'high conviction' view on higher Japanese stocks:
- Japan’s economic revival — and the return of inflation — “makes its equity market one of our strongest convictions,” the BlackRock Investment Institute said in its mid-year outlook.
The firm expect the BoJ not to hike rates next week:
- BOJ probably needs to wait until price trends are confirmed near the end of 2024 before hiking
- “We expect an accommodative environment to continue in Japan,”
- stocks have more room to rise because the BOJ is likely to take a cautious approach to normalizing policy amid an extension of subsidies for power and gas bills for several more months
- This puts the benchmark Topix index on course to set fresh record highs this year
Info comes via Bloomberg (gated)
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