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Japan’s central bank will sell ETFs 2.6 times faster and could still take 43 years to exit

By Andjela Radmilac

Japan's central bank has decided to sell its stock funds about 2.6 times faster than usual, reducing the estimated time needed to dispose of them from 112 years to 43. If you're wondering why such a supercharged exit still stretches across more than four decades, it's because the Bank of Japan is trying to undo… Read…

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Central bank

The public institution that manages a country's currency, money supply and benchmark interest rate, such as the Federal Reserve or the Reserve Bank of India.

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