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Japan : Japan s Central Bank Mulls Ending Support For Corporate Financing.


The Bank of Japan is considering terminating its support for major companies in the country to raise funds at the end of this year as scheduled, due to improvement in those firms' financial conditions, Japan's Jiji Press Jiji Press Ltd. (株式会社 時事通信社 Kabushiki gaisha Jiji Tsūshinsha) is a leading wire service in Japan.  reported Wednesday Wednesday: see week. .

The central bank has been purchasing bank-held commercial paper and corporate bonds since this spring in a bid to prevent funding difficulties at large companies.

But now that improvement in financial conditions at major Japanese Japanese (jăp'ənēz`), language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and  firms was confirmed by its September "tankan" quarterly business survey, released last week, the BOJ BOJ Bank Of Japan
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 is rethinking about the necessity of those extraordinary assistance measures, informed sources said.

The bank's Policy Board is expected to start full-fledged discussions on whether to continue the measures at its two-day meeting from Tuesday and make a final decision on the matter at the following meeting on Oct 30.

The BOJ may also decide to end special open market operations Open Market Operations

The buying and selling of government securities in the open market in order to expand or contract the amount of money in the banking system. Purchases inject money into the banking system and stimulate growth while sales of securities do the opposite.
 to supply low-cost funds for commercial financial institutions' lending to companies, the sources said.

But the sources also said the BOJ could put off concluding the discussions, depending on future developments in domestic and overseas financial markets.

At a press conference after a Group of Seven meeting in Istanbul last weekend, BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa favoured the idea of ending those emergency steps designed to help Japanese companies This is a list of companies from Japan. Note that 株式会社 can be (and frequently is) read both kabushiki kaisha and kabushiki gaisha (with or without a hyphen). See that article for more details.  cope with the global financial crisis.

Offers to sell CP and bonds have fallen short of the BOJ-envisaged amount at each operation, he pointed out.

The special fund supply operations also have become less active.

Meanwhile, the BOJ will continue guiding the unsecured Unsecured

A loan or equity interest that is given without any guarantee of payment, performance, satisfaction or opportunity for return from the recipient. No property, interest or security is used as collateral in either a guarantee or a pledge.
 overnight call rate target to around 0.1 pct at least for the time being, the sources said, adding medium- and small-sized companies are still having difficulty raising funds.

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