The Bank of Japan issued more purchases estimated at about 201.6 billion yen in investment funds traded on the exchange at the beginning of the week’s trading, to be the fourth time since the bank announced the start of its purchases in the traded funds, after strengthening purchases in each of March 26, March 23 and 19 March.
On the other hand, press reports said that the Japanese government has added 16 trillion Japanese yen to the announced fiscal stimulus package to deal with the Corona virus. The funds will be in the form of additional government bonds issued in an attempt to reduce the slowdown in the Japanese economy in light of the spread of Corona.