日銀の金利操作、修正でも「軽微」に　国債の格付け据え置きへ―フィッチ

　【ニューヨーク時事】格付け大手フィッチ・レーティングスのソブリン債格付け責任者のジェームズ・マコーマック氏は１９日までにニューヨークで時事通信の取材に応じ、日銀による長短金利操作の修正観測について「大幅な見直しというよりは軽微な調整にとどまるだろう」と述べた。日本国債の格付けは、上から６番目の「Ａ」で据え置く考えを示した。
　市場では、今月２７、２８日に開かれる日銀の金融政策決定会合で、長期金利の変動許容幅の上限が現在の「０．５％程度」から引き上げられるとの見方が広がっている。マコーマック氏は、こうした修正があったとしても「比較的小規模だ」と指摘。大幅な見直しは、日銀が「１年から１年半程度」かけて実施する金融政策の多角的レビュー（検証）が終わるまでは行われないと予想した。（2023/07/20-07:59）

The Bank of Japan is expected to make only minor changes in its yield curve control policy at its policy-setting meeting later this month, James McCormack, a senior official of major credit ratings agency Fitch Ratings, told Jiji Press.
   "We think there will be relatively minor tweaks or small adjustments in yield curve control rather than a major abandoning (of) the policy," said McCormack, managing director and global head of sovereign and supranational ratings at Fitch.
   He also said the agency's rating on Japanese government bonds will remain unchanged at A, the sixth highest.
   A growing number of market players are speculating that the Japanese central bank could raise its cap on the yield of the newest 10-year JGB issue, currently set at around 0.5 pct, at its next two-day policy-setting meeting from July 27. The 10-year JGB yield is regarded as the benchmark long-term interest rate in Japan.
   McCormack said that no significant change in the yield curve control policy is likely until after the end of the BOJ's multifaceted review of its monetary policy, which "would be taking 12 to 18 months."