Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s upcoming choice of candidate to join the Bank of Japan (BOJ) board could shed light on the leader’s current thinking on the importance of achieving a stubbornly difficult inflation goal. Abe’s nomination to replace Yutaka Harada is scheduled to take place on Tuesday morning, according to a document seen by Bloomberg. The choice will …

Bloomberg Sight deposits at the Swiss National Bank increased only marginally last week, suggesting President Thomas Jordan and his colleagues aren’t taking much action to counter the strengthening franc. Iran-US tensions and fears about the spreading Coronavirus has lifted the haven franc this year. Earlier on Monday, it breached the 1.07 per euro mark to touch a fresh three-year high. …

Bloomberg JPMorgan Chase & Co strategists are betting that the surge in demand for Treasuries thanks to fears about the deadly coronavirus will prove short-lived, sticking with a call to sell longer-dated bonds. Among the Wall Street bank’s other takeaways from the latest market-outlook reports: the outbreak of the disease is a “clear negative” for emerging Asian currencies, while for …