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Is the Bank of Japan preparing to match the Fed's QE?

The Bank of Japan’s decision to bring forward its November Policy Board meeting to the day after next Wednesday’s FOMC raises the intriguing possibility that the Bank intends to respond to any additional quantitative easing in the US with further QE of its own. We think this would make good sense, but that does not mean it will actually happen.

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