The potential market implications of a fiscal crisis may not be as clear cut as some assume, particularly for JGBs, but it is hard to see any outcome that does not involve some further weakness both in equities and in the yen. In this Weekly we suggest three scenarios (“the good, the bad and the ugly”), depending on what the government proposes for the consumption tax.
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