TOKYO -- Japanese government bond yields jumped this week, as investors fret over the country's fiscal health and a looming upper house election that threatens to shift power away from the ruling coalition.
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Bond investors are pricing in fiscal deterioration in Japan as the upper house election approaches. (Photo by Yutaka Miyaguchi)
TOKYO -- Japanese government bond yields jumped this week, as investors fret over the country's fiscal health and a looming upper house election that threatens to shift power away from the ruling coalition.