boj minutes, 2003-03-25
(5) In relation to the Bank's outright purchases of JGBs, it was worth considering, for example, increasing the purchases to 2 trillion yen per month and temporarily removing the current ceiling on its JGB holdings of the outstanding amount of banknotes until the end of March 2004, with a view to promoting rebalancing of financial institutions' portfolios.
Sentiment: neutral
Topic: mp_interest_rate