17:46 - 23.04.2025

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April 23, Fineko/abc.az. Japanese investors sold more than $20 billion worth of international bonds after Donald Trump's tariffs rocked markets earlier this month.

ABC.AZ informs that the Financial Times writes about this with reference to data from the Ministry of Finance of Japan.

According to the newspaper, private institutions, including banks and pension funds, sold debt obligations worth $17.5 billion in the week before April 4 and another $3.6 billion over the next seven days.

Japan holds $1.1 trillion worth of U.S. Treasury bonds in the public and private sectors, the largest international reserve in the world, so its operations are closely monitored and considered an indirect indicator of the purchase or sale of U.S. government debt.

According to the Financial Times, the recent sale was one of the largest outflows of funds in any two-week period since statistics began in 2005.