The Ministry of Finance just reported that Japan bought JPY 657 billion (over $5.6 billion) of foreign stocks last week. That is the biggest weekly purchase of foreign equities since records began in 2001. The huge size of the purchases- more than double the average size of recent weekly purchases - appears to have been 'spent' on European stocks (and perhaps some Chinese). It is unclear whether this is direct buying by the banks as a proxy for The BoJ's quid pro quo or merely front-running this week's exuberance from Draghi by Mrs.Watanabe now that her Swissy trade exploded...
Sure - makes perfect sense... buy the most foreign stocks ever ever...
[3]
and it appears to have been dumped into European equities...
[4]
Charts: Bloomberg
