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Sovereign debt markets are pointing to Japan's long end.
The yield on the 10-year Japanese government bond declined 2.5 basis points to 2.905%, a move that sits inside a global rate environment in which cross-border investors have been recalibrating their approach to yen-denominated assets.
Japanese government bonds are among the most closely watched sovereign instruments in the world, and even a measured move at the long end carries implications for the spread arithmetic that connects Japanese paper to alternatives in other currencies.
The level matters as much as the direction.
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