変動幅拡大「必要ない」　長期金利めぐり黒田日銀総裁

　黒田東彦日銀総裁は５日の衆院財務金融委員会で、１８、１９日の金融政策決定会合で行う大規模緩和策の「点検」に関し、現在プラスマイナス０．２％程度としている長期金利の変動幅拡大論をめぐり「必要があるとは考えていない」と述べた。
　黒田総裁は、変動幅拡大の是非について国債市場の取引活性化の観点から「（今月の会合で）議論になる」と説明。ただ、長引く新型コロナウイルス禍の影響を踏まえ、「現時点でプラスマイナス０．３％に拡大するようなことを言う段階には全然ない」と語った。（2021/03/05-14:17）

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda on Friday made a negative remark about widening the range of fluctuations of 10-year Japanese government bond yields that the BOJ tolerates.
   "I don't think it necessary" to expand the band, roughly between plus and minus 0.2 pct at present, Kuroda told the Financial Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   The BOJ will overhaul its current monetary policy measures at a two-day policy-setting meeting from March 18.
   Whether to expand the band will be discussed in the meeting to consider measures to make JGB trading more active, Kuroda said.
   But the current situation does not warrant expanding the band, to between plus and minus 0.3 pct for example, he also said.