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Yields on super-long JGBs touched record levels last month, meaning higher borrowing costs for the government and creating urgency for the Bank of Japan and Ministry of Finance to steady the market ...

The Bank of Japan has said it will move more slowly on cutting back its bond purchases as its governor warned that going too quickly could hit the stability of one of the world’s biggest debt markets.