Bloomberg Surveillance · Friday, July 31, 2026
Malika Sakeva reported that Japan likely spent around $53 billion intervening in the currency market on Thursday, potentially the largest single-day intervention by the Bank of Japan (BOJ). She argued that the market needs the BOJ to accelerate rate hikes, as keeping rates at 1% is insufficient with inflation above 2%.
“Markot Bloomberg News is reporting that Japan likely spent around fifty three billion dollars US dollars intervening. In the currency market on Thursday. I prop up the end that would likely be the biggest ever intervention on a single day by Hokyo.”
“The market will need the Bank of Japan to walk the hawkish talk that we heard today. They will need to accelerate the pace of rate hikes. They are talking about inflation being north of two percent over their forecast horizon, and so keeping rates at one percent is simply not enough.”