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Chart: Japanese investors sold BTPs in August

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Christopher Dembik

Head of Macroeconomic Research

Summary:  Japanese debt purchases, August 2018

Japanese investors bought a record amount of foreign debt in the month of August. As the chart below shows, they sold Italian BTPs and US Treasuries.
Japanese sales of BTPs
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